Glossary

Binding: Assigns one or more resources to a binding type.

Binding Parameter: Additional, named data stored with a binding. Needs to be defined by the binding type. Can be optional or required.

Binding Type: A name for a semantic type of resources, like "thor/translations". Should start with the vendor namespace of the package that defines the name.

Child Resource: A resource nested in another resource.

Package: A logical grouping of files in a directory. Typically installed with Composer.

Path Mapping: Maps a path prefix to a file or directory in a Composer package.

Path Prefix: A prefix of a Puli path, like /batman/blog.

Public Resource: A resource that is published in the document root of a web server and accessible in the internet.

Puli-Enabled Package: A package that contains a puli.json file in its root directory.

Puli Path: The path of a resource in the resource repository, like /batman/blog/views/index.html.twig.

Resource: A file or directory, typically XML, YAML, HTML, CSS, an image etc.

Resource Consumer: A package that defines a binding type and uses resources bound to this type.

Resource Provider: A package that contains resources bound to a binding type of a resource Consumer.

Root Package: The package for the current project. Any Puli project has exactly one root package and any number of package dependencies (non-root packages).

URL Format: A printf string used to generate URLs of public resources, like https://example.com/%s.

UUID: Short for Universally Unique Identifier. A random 128-bit value used to identify bindings and other distributed objects managed by Puli.

Web Server: Represents a physical web server in Puli. Typically has a URL format and a document root.