Create IClusterConnectionRecord factory with URL-like input and use it in user-facing places
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Description
Follow-on to #5745
Anywhere a user can specifiy a cluster file or seed cluster file, such as the environment or a command line argument, should be handled by a factory function that takes a string and instantiates the correct type of IClusterConnectionRecord.
A URL-like scheme would make it possible to easily support the current behavior for backward compatibility but as well as new implementations of the class, for example
```
# path to a file, current behavior, now ClusterConnectionFile
# explicit version of current behavior
file://
# interface for ClusterConnectionMemoryRecord
memory://
# interface for ClusterConnectionKey
fdbkey://
# Future ideas
https://
s3://
azure://
```
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Trace where users provide cluster files or seed cluster files through environment settings and command-line arguments, then determine how those inputs currently become IClusterConnectionRecord instances. Done means a string factory supports the stated path, file://, memory://, and fdbkey:// forms and is used in those user-facing places.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- databases, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100