Remove hashie about harvested HOT 3 CLOSED

To not break customer apps, I would wrap up your old hashie based interface in some kind of a deprecation pattern and release a point release with the deprecations before simply changing the interface.

Something like this:

class NewConfig
  def initialize(old_config)
    @old_config = old_config
  end

  # Put config interface here

  def method_missing(name, *args, &block)
    if @old_config.respond_to?(name)
      puts "Calling `#{name}` on #{self} is deprecated and will be removed in <version>, please see <URL> for alternatives."
      puts "`#{name}` called #{caller_locations.first}"
      @old_config.send(name, *args, &block)
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

You can initialize it like this:

old_config = Hashie::Mash.new
config     = NewConfig.new(old_config)
config["foo"]
Calling `[]` on #<NewConfig:0x007fcb9d1b2180> is deprecated and will be removed in <version>, please see <URL> for alternatives.
`[]` called (irb):72:in `irb_binding'

Now if your new config is missing an interface the gem will complain loudly. I would point the URL to an issue in your own project and have it say something like this:

We're moving away from a hashie based config. If you're at this page this is the new interface for config:

  # Put config interface docs here

If you can't find a valid method that does what you need to do, please open an issue on the tracker with the code you are trying to use and what you need to do.

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Thanks @schneems. That's a good idea.

harvested is a pretty small gem, and I don't think this will be as big of an impact as compared to something like https://rubygems.org/gems/twitter. I think it'd be a good idea to release your idea with v3.2.0 just to help inform folks still on that major version line. At the same time we can release v4.0 which actually removes Hashie.

harvested isn't using Mash for configuration. We're returning all entities from the API as a Mash. But your point still stands.

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No sense in keeping this issue alive for 3 more years. Closing.

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