Jira (PUP-11785) Don't fallback to PSON

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PUP-11785

Don't fallback to PSON

Issue Type:	Improvement
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2023/03/21 2:38 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Josh Cooper

If puppetserver fails to serialize a catalog to JSON it will fallback to PSON, because there was a time where rich data wasn't supported end-to-end between server and agents. However, rich data is now enabled by default and supported end-to-end. And it required when using Deferred or Sensitive parameters. Therefore, if puppetserver downgrades to PSON it can lead to surprising behavior as described in PUP-10928.

In Puppet 8, we will no longer fallback to PSON. If a user wants binary data in the catalog, such as a Kerberos keytab file, then they should use `content => binary_file(...)` in a file resource.

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