newtonsoft json version is = not >= : when are you going to fix this?

[wpqs]

There have numerous complaints about newtonsoft json version is = not >= and finally the team accepted that they would address the issue in the next release - see close of issue 259. Please would you give an update on when we might expect such a release to be published as stable? It would be great if the team would also give a commitment that they will NEVER again publish anything with such a constraining dependency.

[provanguard]

We have the same issue. We cannot update our projects to the latest netwonsoft json because of this strange dependency constraint. When can we expect a new version with this problem fixed?

[vijayrkn]

Related issue https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-vs-build-sdk/issues/270

[jeffputz]

I'll pile on here. Being locked into a specific version is a little gross, considering how widely used this package is in, pretty much everything. I'm not sure why you would bind to a queue using JObject and not a string. Then you can use whatever deserializer you want, and frankly in almost every case I'm going to use JsonConvert.Deserialize<T>() anyway. Even the templates are binding to a string.

I get the reason behind the decision, but it's likely not a primary use case or a good design decision to hold consumers to a specific Newtonsoft.JSON version when it's so widely used.

[brandonh-msft]

@vijayrkn any update?

[vijayrkn]

This is a functions runtime issue.

@fabiocav / @ColbyTresness may have inputs on this.

[brandonh-msft]

fair enough - can we get it moved to the right place so it's triaged/backlogged appropriately? is this issue the effective dupe for runtime?

[vijayrkn]

@brandonh-msft - There might be a tooling update to fix up the Newtonsoft.json version set in the targets used once runtime fixes this. So cant say it is completely a dupe but dependent on the runtime fix.

[brandonh-msft]

ok yes would be really good to get some clarity here because I thought we fixed all this when we shipped Azure/azure-functions-host#992

[ColbyTresness]

@soninaren to take a look as well.

[fabiocav]

@brandonh-msft this is not related to the tracked by that issue.

We're currently tracking this work here: #304 and should have it done this sprint.

I'll close this as a duplicate of #304 , so please follow that issue for updates.