Add ability to create an Entity with tags in Entity::new()

[a0js]

Category

User level API features/changes

Describe the feature you'd like to request

The entity creation function has no way to create an entity with tags. I'd like to see tags added as an optional parameter to the Entity::new() function, and have them be used in authorization calculations. Additionally, a tag function that behaves similarly to the attr function, might be warranted.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Another option would be to add an update_tags function, however that seems to go against the pattern of immutability I see in the current API for Entity.

Additional context

The only way, currently, to include tags on the entity is to parse it from JSON.

Is this something that you'd be interested in working on?

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

[john-h-kastner-aws]

Thanks for opening this! We definitely should support this in the API. We unfortunately can't add a new parameter to new without a breaking change for existing callers and I agree that the mutable update_tags alternative isn't what we'd want to offer. This probably means adding a new_with_tags function in the next minor version release, and possibly updating new whenever we want to release API version 5.0. LMK if you can think of a fourth alternative that might be better.

[a0js]

new_with_tags seems appropriate to me. How frequently are minor versions released? I hope to be able to use such functionality sooner rather than later. I'm super new to rust, but I can try to make a PR.

[john-h-kastner-aws]

We don't have a specific cadence for releases, but we're looking at a minor release sometime in January