When we do `satellite run api --placement '...'`, the placement rules are not parsed well.
The problem is based on `viper.AllSettings()`, and the main logic is sg. like this (from a new unit test):
```
r := ConfigurablePlacementRule{}
err := r.Set(p)
require.NoError(t, err)
serialized := r.String()
r2 := ConfigurablePlacementRule{}
err = r2.Set(serialized)
require.NoError(t, err)
require.Equal(t, p, r2.String())
```
All settings evaluates the placement rules in `ConfigurablePlacementRules` and stores the string representation.
The problem is that we don't have proper `String()` implementation (it prints out the structs instead of the original definition.
There are two main solutions for this problem:
1. We can fix the `String()`. When we parse a placement rule, the `String()` method should print out the original definition
2. We can switch to use pure string as configuration parameter, and parse the rules only when required.
I feel that 1 is error prone, we can do it (and in this patch I added a lot of `String()` implementations, but it's hard to be sure that our `String()` logic is inline with the parsing logic.
Therefore I decided to make the configuration value of the placements a string (or a wrapper around string).
That's the main reason why this patch seems to be big, as I updated all the usages.
But the main part is in beginning of the `placement.go` (configuration parsing is not a pflag.Value implementation any more, but a separated step).
And `filter.go`, (a few more String implementation for filters.
https://github.com/storj/storj/issues/6248
Change-Id: I47c762d3514342b76a2e85683b1c891502a0756a
as GetParticipatingNodes and GetNodes, respectively.
We now want these functions to include offline and suspended nodes as
well, so that we can force immediate repair when pieces are out of
placement or in excluded countries. With that change, the old names no
longer made sense.
Change-Id: Icbcbad43dbde0ca8cbc80a4d17a896bb89b078b7
This patch is a oneliner: rangedloop checker should check the subnets only if it's not turned off with placement annotation.
(see in satellite/repair/checker/observer.go).
But I didn't find any unit test to cover that part, so I had to write one, and I prefered to write it as a unit test not an integration test, which requires a mock repair queue (observer_unit_test.go mock.go).
Because it's small change, I also included a small change: creating a elper method to check if AutoExcludeSubnet annotation is defined
Change-Id: I2666b937074ab57f603b356408ef108cd55bd6fd
