SNOW-906755: Warnings about Deprecated Packages

[awhitford]

The following warnings were generated by installing snowflake-sdk:

 WARN  deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
 WARN  deprecated [email protected]: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
 WARN  deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.

1. What version of NodeJS driver are you using?
   1.8.0

2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
   Mac OS 13.5.1

3. What version of NodeJS are you using?
   node: 20.5.1
   pnpm: 8.6.12

4. What are the component versions in the environment (npm list)?

dependencies:
flowbite 1.8.1
lucide-solid 0.274.0
snowflake-sdk 1.8.0
solid-js 1.7.11

devDependencies:
autoprefixer 10.4.15
postcss 8.4.29
solid-devtools 0.27.7
tailwindcss 3.3.3
typescript 5.2.2
vite 4.4.9
vite-plugin-solid 2.7.0

5. Server version:
   n/a

6. What did you do?
   pnpm i snowflake-sdk

7. What did you expect to see?
   No warnings.

8. Can you set logging to DEBUG and collect the logs?
   n/a

9. What is your Snowflake account identifier, if any? (Optional)
   n/a

[awhitford]

Related to #259 and #616.

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

hi and thank you for raising this issue. You're right, the uuid deprecation is already planned to be addressed.

The querystring one should be automatically go away after the upgrade to AWS SDK v3 is done (#616) as the deprecated package seems to be an indirect dependency, coming from aws-sdk v2.

Finally for the string-similarity one, we'll take a look and see how best to address it.

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

uuid resolved with #637

[alhassanalbadri]

When should we expect the NPM package to be updated to include the AWS v3 fix?

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

for AWS SDK v3, please see #365 (comment) . It's already merged, so will be available with the next version of the driver; towards end of September.

edit: figured I'll create a list-like summary for easier tracking:

• uuid - resolved with SNOW-896729: Update uuid to version 8 #637 , will be part of September release (expected: end of September) - released with 1.9.0
• aws-sdk v2 - resolved with SNOW-749232: Upgrade to aws-sdk v3 #616, will be part of September release (expected: end of September) - released with 1.9.0
• querystring - dependency of aws-sdk v2, resolved with and by above item - released with 1.9.0
• string-similarity - resolved with SNOW-913627: Replace string-similarity with fastest-levenshtein #652, will be part of October release (expected: end of October)

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

node.js driver version 1.9.1 released with the fix and is available on npm. thank you all for bearing with us !