Jira (PUP-10250) is it time to remove deprecated hiera

Ben Ford (JIRA)

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PUP-10250

is it time to remove deprecated hiera_* functions?

Issue Type:	Improvement
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2020/01/23 2:11 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Ben Ford

Functions like hiera_hash() have been deprecated for three years now. Is Puppet 7 the right time to remove them?

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Ben Ford (JIRA)

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is it time to remove deprecated hiera_* functions?

Change By:	Ben Ford

Functions like {{hiera_hash()}} have been [deprecated for three years|https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blame/master/lib/puppet/functions/hiera_hash.rb#L5] now. Is Puppet 7 the right time to remove them? There are still 146 modules that use this function, but we could create a puppet-lint plugin to help update these.

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Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)

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Jan 23, 2020, 6:58:04 PM1/23/20

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Re: is it time to remove deprecated hiera_* functions?

A bigger question if we can drop all of the hiera 3 support as well as the functions; the hiera gem, project, backends and support for the hiera 3 version of the hiera.yaml. (And while at it also remove the support for the hiera 4 format and semantics.

Dropping all of that has several technical benefits - less code to maintain, build and test, getting rid of old unmaintainable code, less code to load at runtime etc.