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Latest puppetexplorer broke compatibility with PuppetDB < 3.0.0
After upgrading a working system to the latest puppetexplorer it refused to work anymore.
At first there was a trivial change to our proxy for PuppetDB (/api/v4 became /api/pdb/query/v4). We quickly fixed it, but please do note that it doesn't appear to be fixed in spotify-puppetexplorer module.
Then we're stuck with "Unsupported query parameter 'order_by'". It seems that PuppetDB 3.0 changed it from the older "order-by" to the newer "order_by": http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/3.0/api/query/v4/upgrading-from-v3.html
It would be cool if Puppetexplorer could retain compatibility with PuppetDB < 3.0 (maybe via a configuration parameter?), but if it couldn't it should be noted in the Dependencies section of README.md.
A lot more was changed to support PuppetDB 3.0, especially in commit https://github.com/spotify/puppetexplorer/commit/2e962b7afdb794c2b756a365ef7dcf37c134618f. Too bad there's no compatibility with 3.0 any more. We've downgraded to 1.5.0 now.
but if it couldn't it should be noted in the Dependencies section of README.md.
It was mentioned in the release notes of puppetexplorer 2.0.0 https://github.com/spotify/puppetexplorer/releases/tag/2.0.0
Then I should mention that release notes and README.md are out of sync, since the latter says "the current version only works with PuppetDB 2.1" :-)
That was a mistake, I'll fix the readme tomorrow when I'm back home again. I'll also try to fix the version check so it also queries the old version api and displays the error message about too old puppetdb version.
it would also be nice if one could still access the pre 2.x rpms on http://yum.puppetexplorer.io/
I'll take a look why they aren't available there. They are however downloadable from the github releases tab on each release.
@TheMeier: I just downloaded it from http://yum.puppetexplorer.io/puppetexplorer-1.5.0-1.noarch.rpm, removed the old puppetexplorer package and installed this one. I tried yum downgrade first, but when that didn't work I couldn't be bothered too much to find out why it didn't.