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Feature #15095

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

For Puppet Server 2.3.0 or higher (Puppet version 4.4+), a new environment_classes API is available that replaces resource_types. 

 https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/2.3/release_notes.html#new-feature-environmentclasses-api https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html#new-feature-environmentclasses-api 
 https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/2.3/puppet-api/v3/environment_classes.html 

 In Puppet 4.5 (probably Puppet Server 2.4.0?) the older resource_types API is deprecated: 

 https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.5/reference/release_notes.html#deprecations 

 There are some features that we can expose in the smart proxy, e.g. 

 # typing via @default_literal@ - Foreman already follows the type of the default value in the JSON response (int, hash etc) to set the type of the smart class parameter. resource_types returns everything as a string. 
 # reporting of errors - this could be logged on the smart proxy and/or added to the API response 
 # clearer caching semantics with etag/matching support

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