Option to customize Quadlet service names

[lovette]

Feature request description

I'm currently migrating from the "deprecated" systemd generation to Quadlets. It's been a bumpy road, mostly due to podlet not being fully baked and some generation errors that aren't surfaced unless you do a generator -dryrun.

Currently, the generator creates most service names by replacing the Quadlet file extension with a suffix like -image or -pod. In my case, for easy grep'ing and probably other forgotten reasons (my project has been using Podman since version 3), I end all my pod names with -pod so all my Quadlet pod services end in -pod-pod 🙄

For pods, the pod name itself can be set with the PodName option, which in turn eliminates the addition of a systemd- prefix, but the service name cannot be influenced.

Suggest potential solution

I would like to request that Quadlet generated service names be customizable, either based on PodName (for pods) or a new generic option such as ServiceName.

Have you considered any alternatives?

The alternative would be to rename all my pods 😁 In the meantime, I'm getting used to:

sudo systemctl status mariadb-pod-pod

Additional context

Coincidentally, I had a similar request related to prefix/suffix used by generate systemd back in 2022.

[ygalblum]

@lovette thanks for raising this issue.
I agree that like with .container and .kube units, users interact with the service created for the .pod file. However, I'm not sure this change is needed for other types because they are supposed to be used only as dependencies. WDYT?
I've created a PR that addresses this request for .pod files. It was simpler for .pod units because of some other code that was already available.

[lovette]

I’m traveling and can’t tell using my phone exactly what the proposed solution is. The two proposals that came to mind for me were either 1) not appending a suffix if the name already ends with that suffix or 2) adding a ServiceName option (to them all perhaps.) The first seems like a quick fix and the second provides the most flexibility.