Unable to remove extension configuration settings

[mpdude]

When using this:

::php::extension { 'some-extension':
    settings => {
        'some.setting' => 'old-value',
    }
}

... and you later change it to ...

::php::extension { 'some-extension':
    settings => {}
}

... the some.setting is not removed from the ...some-extension.ini file.

The reason probably is that the settings hash is converted into ::php::config::settings here:

puppet-php/manifests/config.pp

Line 28 in 82a1698

create_resources(::php::config::setting, to_hash_settings($config, $file),{ file => $file })

... which in turn becomes an ini_setting:

puppet-php/manifests/config/setting.pp

Lines 43 to 49 in 82a1698

	ini_setting { $name:
	ensure => $ensure,
	value => $value,
	path => $file,
	section => $section,
	setting => $setting,
	}

... but there is never anything that cleans up old/stale/unmanaged settings.

In an older version of this module, a possible workaround was to use undef for values that you'd like to remove, but that's no longer possible due to the typing. #654 re-enables that.

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet:
• Ruby:
• Distribution: Ubuntu 20.04
• Module version: 8.0.2