For backward compatibility we will continue to support using the data
sources that were formerly logical resources as resources for the moment,
but we want to warn the user about it since this support is likely to
be removed in future.
This is done by adding a new "deprecation message" feature to
schema.Resource, but for the moment this is done as an internal feature
(not usable directly by plugins) so that we can collect additional
use-cases and design a more general interface before creating a
compatibility constraint.
Historically we've had some "read-only" and "logical" resources. With the
addition of the data source concept these will gradually become data
sources, but we need to retain backward compatibility with existing
configurations that use the now-deprecated resources.
This shim is intended to allow us to easily create a resource from a
data source implementation. It adjusts the schema as needed and adds
stub Create and Delete implementations.
This would ideally also produce a deprecation warning whenever such a
shimmed resource is used, but the schema system doesn't currently have
a mechanism for resource-specific validation, so that remains just a TODO
for the moment.
Martin Atkins