Hey Traffic Controllers, In order to accelerate our progress toward using and developing traffic_ops_golang as a community, I'd like to propose that we remove all of the dead Perl Traffic Ops API code in the repo. Many endpoints have been rewritten in Go at this point, and by keeping the obsolete Perl endpoints in the repo we're not making it clear that new enhancements have to be made in traffic_ops_golang and Traffic Portal in order to actually work and survive long-term (as opposed to the legacy Perl Traffic Ops API and UI which is planned to be deprecated and removed in the near future).
Right now the only thing keeping the dead Perl endpoints from being deleted is the Perl test framework that depends on them. Unfortunately the tests are all caught in a spider web of interdependency, so we can't simply remove tests for APIs that have been rewritten in Go without breaking other tests. However, we think there are a few ways we should be able to accomplish this: 1. Make the Perl integration tests actually make HTTP calls which can then be handled by traffic_ops_golang, rather than calling the Perl API router directly. 2. Remove test interdependencies by mocking out the test data. 3. Rewrite all the Perl tests in the go API test framework and remove the Perl tests. We are also open to other suggestions that allow us to remove dead Perl code :). Please +1 or -1 if you agree or disagree; all feedback is welcome. - Rawlin
