Remove jQuery Dependency

[amcdnl]

Issue

This package relies on jQuery ( https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-javascript#client-side-code-example ).

jQuery is not widely used anymore and for simple things like making API calls the fetch API would be better.

[aaronlippold]

👍🏻 agreed. Any thoughts from the splunk team on this. We have multiple projects facing issues with this dependency.

[ashah-splunk]

@amcdnl as of now we don't have any plans to migrate to fetch API. Please let us know if there is any specific need for using fetch API

@aaronlippold would you please share details of issues that are being faced in the projects because of the jQuery dependency.

[aaronlippold]

Hi Happy to. Amndeep Mann is our lead developer and he can get our other developers involved in the conversation to provide you more detail on the issues we were facing, and why we had to temporary migrate away from the SDK to straight Axios so that we were able to continue our upgrade to node 18 and resolve, critical vulnerability, mitigation‘s for our application. We also had to make updates via a fork of the repository and our own organization. If we can contribute these back, and the library itself would be better maintained we would be more than happy to, of course leverage the SDK as it was intended for our Splunk integrations and be proactive participants in the community. Looking forward to working with you guys on this moving forward.

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[Amndeep7]

jQuery issue

• Our webapp until just recently used the splunk js sdk to interface with splunk instances
• We are attempting to migrate the webapp to support Node v18 - there is much grief already posted on the internet about it being a difficult process due to node internals changing impacting several base libraries
• We use webpack to transpile our code from typescript to javascript - during that transpilation process, it goes through and adds 'use strict' to everything including dependencies
• In our branch where the migration work is being done, we are currently experiencing some runtime errors with anything using jQuery due to jQuery not being compatible with 'use strict'
• The runtime error we get is as follows and was traced to a jQuery internal function: Uncaught TypeError: 'caller', 'callee', and 'arguments' properties may not be accessed on strict mode functions or the arguments objects for calls to them
• Removing jQuery as a dependency would help us with this issue. For now, we've instead converted to calling the api directly via axios

Fork reason

• For some reason, we were having issues with using this library in the browser due to process.env being overwritten in this library
• Unfortunately, the dev who did the implementation for the functionality using this sdk is no longer with the company so I have no further details atm