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(CAT-1646) - Remove section if it has empty line but does not have any settings #532

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Summary

Current implementation keeping section as it is if just contain empty line as described here, this change will delete the section if just contain empty line.

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#524

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  • 🟢 Spec tests.
  • 🟢 Acceptance tests.
  • Manually verified. (For example puppet apply)

@Ramesh7 Ramesh7 added the bugfix label Mar 7, 2024
@Ramesh7 Ramesh7 changed the title (CAT-1646) - Remove section if its not have any settings (CAT-1646) - Remove section if it has empty line but does not have any settings Mar 7, 2024
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@Ramesh7 Ramesh7 requested review from bastelfreak, ekohl, smortex and a team as code owners March 7, 2024 18:06
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I am not sure if people rely on the old behaviour. If they do, this would be a breaking change. I don't think it's a breaking change, but I cannot rule it out.

Besides that I think that the implementation is fine.

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Ramesh7 commented Mar 11, 2024

I am not sure if people rely on the old behaviour. If they do, this would be a breaking change. I don't think it's a breaking change, but I cannot rule it out.

Besides that I think that the implementation is fine.

Agreed with you @bastelfreak, BTW it will just remove the empty section which has only new line but it won't impact if a section just has comment. So I feel it should be good to go.

@Ramesh7 Ramesh7 merged commit df37025 into main Mar 11, 2024
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This is a breaking change and it needs to be an optional behavior. For example, this breaks splunk indexer configuration, which configures replication port with no other settings:

[replication_port://9887]

I would have to use file_line now

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smortex commented Mar 31, 2024

When I read #524 (which this PR is supposed to address and should have been closed?), I understand that the behavior was different when removing the last setting of a section depending on the presence or absence of blank lines in that section, and I guess the behavior is still different if the section has comments. Inconsistency is indeed not great.

AFAIAC, a ini_setting resource should manage settings, and not sections (with the exception of adding the section when in does not already exist), and when removing the last setting of a section, I would never expect that section to disappear. It is basically the behavior of ini-style file manipulation library I have worked with, e.g. GLib.KeyFile. If the user want to remove a section, they should be able to do so by using a relevant resource, that is a specific function for the GLib.Keyfile example, or a specific resource i.e. ini_section { "legacy": ensure => absent }.

I believe we should revert this and release 6.1.2 to remove this breaking change. Then if we want to re-introduce this, a new major version will be required, and I would vote for changing the ini_setting interface to not prune empty sections anymore and have a dedicated resource that can be used to ensure a section is explicitly absent.

@Ramesh7, @vchepkov, @bastelfreak what do you think?

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I agree

smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 31, 2024
PR #532 introduced 4ebe030 breaks
backwards compatibility and is part of a patch release, as stated here:
#532 (comment)

This reverts commit 4ebe030.

This will allow us to do a new patch release that fix the unexpected
backwards incompatible change, and leave the room to implement this as
part of a next major version of the module.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 31, 2024
PR #532 introduced 4ebe030 which breaks
backwards compatibility and is part of a patch release, as reported here:
#532 (comment)

This reverts commit 4ebe030.

This will allow us to do a new patch release that fix the unexpected
backwards incompatible change, and leave the room to implement this as
part of a next major version of the module.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
smortex added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 1, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
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smortex commented Apr 1, 2024

I opened three PR that are ready for testing (each PR include the previous ones):

The last 2 are draft as they should not be merged before a new release including the first PR is done. However, they are ready for review.

Thanks!

Ramesh7 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 6, 2024
PR #532 introduced 4ebe030 which breaks
backwards compatibility and is part of a patch release, as reported here:
#532 (comment)

This reverts commit 4ebe030.

This will allow us to do a new patch release that fix the unexpected
backwards incompatible change, and leave the room to implement this as
part of a next major version of the module.
Ramesh7 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 6, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
Ramesh7 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 6, 2024
PR #532 introduced 4ebe030 which breaks
backwards compatibility and is part of a patch release, as reported here:
#532 (comment)

This reverts commit 4ebe030.

This will allow us to do a new patch release that fix the unexpected
backwards incompatible change, and leave the room to implement this as
part of a next major version of the module.
Ramesh7 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 6, 2024
When the last setting of a section was removed, the whole section was
removed unless it contained white space of comments.  In #532, this was
changed to also remove sections that only contained space (blank lines),
but it caused regressions and was reverted in #535.

For consistency, we completely suppress the auto-removal of "empty"
sections: removing the last setting of a section will not remove this
section anymore, just like what happens for sections with only blank
lines and comments.
Ramesh7 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 6, 2024
PR #532 introduced 4ebe030 which breaks
backwards compatibility and is part of a patch release, as reported here:
#532 (comment)

This reverts commit 4ebe030.

This will allow us to do a new patch release that fix the unexpected
backwards incompatible change, and leave the room to implement this as
part of a next major version of the module.
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