Jira (PUP-8601) agent should support rich data content negotiation

[Eric Thompson (JIRA)]

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Eric Thompson updated an issue   Puppet / PUP-8601 agent should support rich data content negotiation Change By: Eric Thompson The 6.0 agent should request a catalog using a rich-data encoding by default. The request rather than the current {{\--rich-data}} setting should control the format of the catalog. (The setting is still needed but it should default to true for command line execution). An agent < 6.0 when talking to a server >= 6.0.0 will not know how to request rich data format (now it assumes rich data if it has {{\--rich-data}} turned on. I think it is safe to assume that we can simply ignore the {{\--rich-data}} flag on the agent side and state that in order to use rich-data you need to use a 6.y agent. Further - in the current protocol, we change the encoding from JSON (the default) to PSON if we detect ASCII-8bit String data. With rich-data encoding we should not do this. There are options: # (Magically) transform the ASCII-8bit String to a Binary - the agent will need to be able to deal with an instance of Binary (our File resource will be able to do so). # Raise an error and tell user to use a Binary instead of an ASCII-8bit # (Magically) deserialize a Binary to ASCII-8bit on the agent side to allow types and providers that are unaware of the Binary type work as they did before. (This has bad side effects further downstream in reports etc). Number 2 is the preferred (non magical) solution. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.