dubbo-admin-discovery

dubbo-admin Discovery

Purpose

Use this skill to trace registry-sourced resources from ListWatcher input through informer events, EventBus dispatch, subscribers, store writes, and derived mesh resources.

When to use

Use for Zookeeper or Nacos registry flow, discovery ListWatchers, discovery subscribers, metadata-derived services, application instance counts, and registry event bugs.

Do not use for Kubernetes runtime infrastructure engine flow; use dubbo-admin-engine for RuntimeInstance behavior.

Inputs

Required:

• Registry type, resource kind, subscriber, or discovery package path.
• The event or resource transition being changed or debugged.

Optional:

• Example registry metadata.
• Store query or index involved.
• Console API result affected by discovery data.

If missing, start at pkg/core/discovery/component.go and identify the subscriber for the resource kind.

Workflow

1. Read pkg/core/discovery/component.go for dependencies, informer creation, subscriber registration, and start behavior.
2. Inspect pkg/core/controller/listwatcher.go and pkg/core/controller/informer.go.
3. Follow registry-specific ListWatcher creation through pkg/core/discovery/factory.go.
4. Read the relevant subscriber under pkg/core/discovery/subscriber/.
5. Verify resource writes against store and index behavior.
6. Read references/discovery-flow.md for subscriber registration and event flow details.

Output format

Return the resource flow, affected subscriber, store/index interactions, changed files, and validation commands or residual test gaps.

Validation

• Confirm informer events emit the expected cache.DeltaType.
• Confirm subscriber ResourceKind() matches the event resource kind.
• Confirm derived resources use stable resource keys.
• Run targeted subscriber or controller tests; use make test for broad discovery changes.

Edge cases

• Nacos and Zookeeper register extra subscribers conditionally.
• Delete events may need old objects and must not assume NewObj() exists.
• If dispatch semantics are the problem, switch to dubbo-admin-events.

References

• Read references/discovery-flow.md for ListWatcher, informer, and subscriber details.