Issue #7041 has been updated by R.I. Pienaar.
Category set to Core
Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs Decision
Not really sure how to address this, will need some thinking etc.
We can 'compile' the existing DDLs into JSON for use in other languages and
provide some tools to help with this but the epic fail that's Ruby + JSON will
make doing this really hard.
We let users mix symbols and strings however they please and this will make
actually doing this really hard, I anticipate somewhere between 1.2.0 and 1.4.0
we will need to start enforcing what we use - breaking backward compatibility -
and then we can look at this again and also consider using JSON on the
transport.
Just for reference the problem with symbols and strings and json is:
<pre>
>> {:foo => "bar"}.to_json
=> "{"foo":"bar"}"
>> {"foo" => "bar"}.to_json
=> "{"foo":"bar"}"
>> {"foo" => "bar", :foo => "bar"}.to_json
=> "{"foo":"bar","foo":"bar"}"
</pre>
So without forcing either symbols or strings everywhere this makes things
really overly complex.
We'll need to do this for the main protocol bits as well as what users are
allowed to do in agents.
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Feature #7041: DDL should be a non-ruby specific format
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7041
Author: Ken Barber
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category: Core
Target version:
Keywords:
Branch:
Affected mCollective version: 1.1.2
(feedback from training)
Currently the DDL is written in Ruby. This request is to use a non-ruby
specific cross-platform serialization for this file format so other languages
can utilize the DDL as well.
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