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What does this PR do?

Third of a five-PR stack that adds karta get. Renders a set of workload views in the format -o selects.

  • table - NAME NAMESPACE PHASE AGE, using the standard kubectl tab writer.
  • wide - adds ORIGIN, the source of the resolving definition (catalog or cluster).
  • json / yaml - the typed view, for scripting and MCP consumers.

Two deliberate departures from kubectl, both aimed at machine consumers:

  • Machine output is always an array, including for a single named workload. kubectl's list-vs-single asymmetry is a known wart people work around with jq -s; Karta views are not Kubernetes objects, so there is no List kind to emit and no reason to reproduce it. One shape means a consumer never branches.
  • The empty-result notice goes to stderr, and is suppressed entirely for json and yaml, which emit [] on stdout instead. Piping into jq does not choke on empty input.

An unset creation timestamp renders <unknown> rather than saturating to 292y, which is reachable for any view not built from a live API read.

Follows the scope cut in #305

The base PR deferred the component breakdown and the aggregate GPU total pending the output contract in #206, so View no longer carries Components or GPUs. This branch has been updated to match:

  • The COMPONENTS and GPU columns are gone from the table.
  • The components cell went with them: the role(count) formatting, its width budget, and the elision that kept later columns aligned all read fields that no longer exist.

They return alongside the fields rather than living on as dead code against a struct that cannot feed them. The elision behaviour is the part worth restoring carefully - Milvus declares eighteen components, and a multi-instance component takes its name from the instance key, which can outgrow the cell on its own.

Of the #205 table, this renders NAME, PHASE and AGE. COMPONENTS and GPU await the follow-up, and KIND is not yet a column here.

Related issue(s)

Refs #205

Stack

  1. feat(cli): give failures distinguishable exit codes #304 - exit codes
  2. feat(cli): add the resolved workload view #305 - resolved workload view
  3. this PR - renderer
  4. feat(cli): add the get command for workloads #307 - the get command
  5. feat(cli): add -A/--all-namespaces to get #308 - -A/--all-namespaces

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  • All commits are signed off with DCO (git commit -s)
  • New/modified files have SPDX license and copyright headers
  • Documentation updated (if applicable)
  • Tests pass (make check)
  • No proprietary or internal information included

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added workload listing with table and wide output modes.
    • Workload tables show names, namespaces, phases, and ages; wide mode also includes origin details.
    • Added namespace-aware and all-namespace rendering options.
    • Machine-readable output formats are supported, with clear handling for empty results and unknown creation times.
    • Rendering now reports output-writing errors clearly.
  • Tests

    • Updated workload rendering tests to validate supported output behavior and error handling.

Every error exited 1, so a script could not tell an unknown type from an
unreachable cluster. Add an error that carries an exit code, and map usage
failures (invalid flag value, bad arguments, unrecognised command) to a
distinct code.

Cobra reports an unrecognised subcommand only for a non-runnable command and
before validating args, so the root becomes runnable to keep that case inside
the contract. Silencing Cobra's own reporting also silences its usage hint, so
main prints both the hint and the lowercase "error:" prefix the rest of the
CLI's diagnostics use.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
Turn a workload object into the view the CLI renders: identity, normalized
phase, the semantic component breakdown, and aggregate requested GPUs, read
through the Karta definition that covers its type. Resolution is spec-only, so
a consumer pays one list per kind and no pod reads.

The catalog forces several rules that are easy to get wrong, each covered by a
test against a real definition: the root carries the pod template for
Deployment and friends, which tree.Build omits; a component the workload does
not use still extracts a zero-valued spec, so emptiness is tested by value; a
component declaring only a minimum falls back to it; spec shapes are mutually
exclusive so a definition naming both a container and a resources path counts
GPUs once; child replicas are already absolute, so a cloned subtree is walked
once; and the GPU total follows the effective pod request Kubernetes schedules
against.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
Render a set of workload views in the format the -o flag selects. The table
uses the standard kubectl tab writer and elides a long COMPONENTS cell so the
later columns stay aligned; wide adds the origin of the resolving definition.

Machine output is always an array, including for a single workload, so a
consumer never branches on shape. The empty-result notice goes to stderr and is
suppressed entirely for json and yaml, so piping into jq does not choke on
empty input.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
The exit-code work this branch was built on landed on main as its reviewed
version, so take main's side for every conflicted file: usageError/usageArgs,
the UsagePath hint, root suggestions, and the config bypass on a bare root.
ExitNotFound was dropped with it; nothing referenced it.

Main also renamed OriginCommunity to OriginCatalog in #297, which git could not
see as a conflict, so the new workload tests move to the current name.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
Drop the per-component breakdown and the aggregate GPU total from the resolved
view. Both need to be re-evaluated against the get (#205) and describe (#206)
designs before they become part of the output contract, so they land in a
follow-up PR rather than ship a shape that has to change.

Removing them takes the whole GPU accounting path with it: the spec shape
handling, the replica fallback, and the tree walk that fed the total. Resolve
still builds the tree, because that is what yields the normalized phase. What
remains is the root object's identity, the definition that covered it, and that
phase.

The tests follow the same cut. The catalog fixtures now pin, per kind, which
definition resolves it and that a status-less manifest reads as Undefined,
rather than GPU arithmetic. nested_test.go went with them: its only assertion
was a GPU total.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
The resolved view no longer carries the component breakdown or the aggregate
GPU total; both were deferred out of #305 pending the output contract in #206.
Render what the view still provides and restore the columns with the fields.

This takes the components cell with it: the role(count) formatting, its width
budget and the elision that kept later columns aligned all read fields that no
longer exist. They come back with the breakdown rather than living on as dead
code against a struct that cannot feed them.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
Base automatically changed from feat/cli-workload-view to main August 30, 2026 14:47
#305 landed as a squash, so this branch's copies of its commits conflict with
the merged result. Take main's side for every workload file: it carries the
review fixes (SPDX headers on the fixtures, View leading view.go) that this
branch predates.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
The commit that added the SPDX headers stripped the final newline from all six
files, so each ended mid-line. Text files end with one.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
Make the output switch exhaustive. A format that is set but unrecognized now
errors instead of quietly rendering a table, which would misrepresent what the
caller asked for. An unset Output still renders the default table, so Options{}
stays usable as-is.

Assert the table by its split cells rather than by substring. The old check
could not fail: "NAME" is a substring of "NAMESPACE", so the assertion held
whether or not the column was there. Comparing the parsed header and row pins
the column set, its order, and the values.

Also name encode for what it does, record why only its JSON branch adds a
trailing newline, and build the row cells as a literal rather than appending to
a fresh slice.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
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Added workload rendering with table, wide, and machine-readable output handling. The renderer supports namespace-aware empty-result messages, unknown creation timestamps, and wrapped output errors. Tests cover output modes, error handling, timestamp handling, and unchanged GPU fixture values.

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Workload rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Renderer contract and dispatch
cli/pkg/generator/workload.go
Adds Options and RenderWorkloads. Unset output formats default to table output. Machine-readable formats use Render.
Output formats and table formatting
cli/pkg/generator/workload.go
Renders workload columns, wide-mode origin data, <unknown> ages, and wrapped table flush errors.
Renderer validation and fixtures
cli/pkg/generator/workload_test.go, cli/pkg/workload/testdata/*
Tests rendering modes, empty-result messages, stderr write failures, and preserved GPU values in workload fixtures.

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A rabbit checks the workload rows,
Tables bloom in tidy flows.
Wide columns stretch and ages gleam,
Empty lists whisper through the stream.
GPU numbers stay in place,
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#309 landed a generic Render in the same package and file this branch added
its own to. Keep main's: it is generic over the item type, delegates the human
table to a callback, and reports an unsupported format with a sentinel callers
can match. This branch's copy is deleted rather than reconciled.

What was specific to a workload view moves to RenderWorkloads, which supplies
the table callback and keeps the namespace-aware empty notice on stderr. The
machine formats now go through the shared Render, so get and definitions emit
the same shapes.

Tests move to Ginkgo, the convention the package arrived at with #309.

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Wrap the tab writer flush, so a failed table write says which write failed, the
way renderDefinitions already does.

Move the specs to the internal package, per the guideline that a test file sits
in the package it covers. The two generator test files #309 merged use the
external package and still need the same change.

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On an empty result the notice is the entire output, and unlike the writes into
the tab writer, nothing flushes it later to surface the error. Swallowing it
meant a command that said nothing still exited successfully, so a script
redirecting stderr to a full disk would read that as a clean run.

Build the message once and return the write error wrapped.

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#305, #306 and #309 all landed as squashes, so this branch's copies of their
commits conflicted with the merged result. Take main's side throughout, and
carry over only what this branch owns: the get command, the clusterAccess seam
its tests use, and registering get in place of the workload tree.

Three things had to be reconciled rather than chosen:

ExitNotFound returns. #304's review dropped it because nothing referenced it;
get is the caller #205 specified, for an unknown type and for no definitions at
all.

The renderer moved. get now calls RenderWorkloads, the workload-specific entry
point, rather than the Render this branch predates.

The view no longer carries a component breakdown or a GPU total, so the table
assertions, the JSON contract assertion and the command's own help text drop
their claims to both. nested_test.go goes for the same reason; main deleted it,
and the merge kept it as a file only this branch had.

Signed-off-by: Roee Gil <roee.gil@run.ai>
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func renderTable(out io.Writer, views []workload.View, opts Options) error {
writer := printers.GetNewTabWriter(out)

headers := []string{"NAME", "NAMESPACE", "PHASE", "AGE"}

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This is only relevant for workloads, right? You should either move it or rename the function.

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