Removing support for .bolt rules (#9339)

* Removing support for .bolt rules

* Changelog

Author: joehan

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-- [firestore] Changed `firestore:backups:list --json` to return a `listBackupsResponse` object instead of a raw array of backups. This is a breaking change that provides more information, including unreachable locations.
+- [BREAKING] Changed `firestore:backups:list --json` to return a `listBackupsResponse` object instead of a raw array of backups.
+- [BREAKING] Removed support for '.bolt' rules files.
+- [BREAKING] Removed support for running emulators with Java versions prior to 21.
 - Add a confirmation in `firebase init dataconnect` before asking for app idea description. (#9282)
-- [BREAKING] Removes support for running emulators with Java versions prior to 21.

src/config.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import * as utils from "./utils";
 import { getValidator, getErrorMessage } from "./firebaseConfigValidate";
 import { logger } from "./logger";
 import { loadCJSON } from "./loadCJSON";
-const parseBoltRules = require("./parseBoltRules");
 
 export class Config {
   static DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS_SOURCE = "functions";
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ export class Config {
     }
 
     // If a top-level key contains a string path pointing to a suported file
-    // type (JSON or Bolt), we read the file.
+    // type (JSON ), we read the file.
     //
     // TODO: This is janky and confusing behavior, we should remove it ASAP.
     Config.MATERIALIZE_TARGETS.forEach((target) => {
@@ -166,10 +165,9 @@ export class Config {
         return loadCJSON(fullPath);
       /* istanbul ignore-next */
       case ".bolt":
-        if (target === "database") {
-          this.notes.databaseRules = "bolt";
-        }
-        return parseBoltRules(fullPath);
+        throw new FirebaseError(
+          "As of firebase-tools@15.0.0, .bolt rules are no longer supported.",
+        );
       default:
         throw new FirebaseError(
           "Parse Error: " + filePath + " is not of a supported config file type",

src/deploy/database/prepare.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import * as clc from "colorette";
 import * as path from "path";
 
 import { FirebaseError } from "../../error";
-import { parseBoltRules } from "../../parseBoltRules";
 import * as rtdb from "../../rtdb";
 import * as utils from "../../utils";
 import * as dbRulesConfig from "../../database/rulesConfig";
@@ -34,8 +33,9 @@ export function prepare(context: any, options: DeployOptions): Promise<any> {
         ruleFiles[file] = options.config.readProjectFile(file);
         break;
       case ".bolt":
-        ruleFiles[file] = parseBoltRules(file);
-        break;
+        throw new FirebaseError(
+          "As of firebase-tools@15.0.0, .bolt rules are no longer supported.",
+        );
       default:
         throw new FirebaseError("Unexpected rules format " + path.extname(file));
     }

src/emulator/databaseEmulator.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import { Constants } from "./constants";
 import { EmulatorRegistry } from "./registry";
 import { EmulatorLogger } from "./emulatorLogger";
 import { FirebaseError } from "../error";
-import { parseBoltRules } from "../parseBoltRules";
 import { connectableHostname } from "../utils";
 
 export interface DatabaseEmulatorArgs {
@@ -163,11 +162,7 @@ export class DatabaseEmulator implements EmulatorInstance {
   }
 
   private async updateRules(instance: string, rulesPath: string): Promise<any> {
-    const rulesExt = path.extname(rulesPath);
-    const content =
-      rulesExt === ".bolt"
-        ? parseBoltRules(rulesPath).toString()
-        : fs.readFileSync(rulesPath, "utf8");
+    const content = fs.readFileSync(rulesPath, "utf8");
 
     try {
       await EmulatorRegistry.client(Emulators.DATABASE).put(`/.settings/rules.json`, content, {