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  1. eZ Publish / Platform
  2. EZP-30116

Unable to use default VCL template on Varnish versions lower than 5.1

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      It's not possible to use the default Varnish template on Varnish versions lower than 5.1. Varnish service fails to start with:

       varnish.service - Varnish HTTP accelerator
         Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
        Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service.d
                 └─override.conf
         Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-02-06 13:43:16 GMT; 4s ago
           Docs: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/
                 man:varnishd
        Process: 3453 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j none -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,1024m (code=exited, status=2)
       Main PID: 3453 (code=exited, status=2)
      
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: Message from VCC-compiler:
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: Expression has type DURATION, expected BOOL
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: ('/etc/varnish/default.vcl' Line 268 Pos 17) -- ('/etc/varnish/default.vcl' Line 268 Pos 23)
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]:             if (obj.ttl) {
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: ----------------#######---
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: Running VCC-compiler failed, exited with 2
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish varnishd[3453]: VCL compilation failed
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish systemd[1]: varnish.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish systemd[1]: varnish.service: Unit entered failed state.
      Feb 06 13:43:16 varnish systemd[1]: varnish.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
      

      Looks like it's related to this change:
      https://github.com/ezsystems/ezplatform-http-cache/commit/fc6117d4435d28907429b686fae3d7d103028b9f

      Seems like implicit casting has been added in 5.1 (5.1.3 doc mentions it https://varnish-cache.org/docs/5.1/reference/vcl.html?highlight=vcl#booleans , but 4.1.10 does not: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/reference/vcl.html?highlight=vcl#booleans ).

      katarzyna.zawada@ez.no encountered this issue on varnish-5.0.0.

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            marek.nocon@ibexa.co Marek Nocoń
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