From 1b0062d9b2740f4a83100d6784eb46c368d9ffab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Franz=20P=C3=B6schel?= <franz.poeschel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:37:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Maybe expose this publicly?"

This reverts commit f00baa7d0d9d1b0dd72aba2631513a12e7c522ae.
---
 include/openPMD/auxiliary/JSON.hpp |  3 ---
 src/auxiliary/JSON.cpp             | 22 ----------------------
 src/binding/python/Series.cpp      |  5 -----
 3 files changed, 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/openPMD/auxiliary/JSON.hpp b/include/openPMD/auxiliary/JSON.hpp
index 93ea8551dd..8c2551fe0a 100644
--- a/include/openPMD/auxiliary/JSON.hpp
+++ b/include/openPMD/auxiliary/JSON.hpp
@@ -61,8 +61,5 @@ namespace json
      */
     std::string
     merge(std::string const &defaultValue, std::string const &overwrite);
-
-    std::string filterByTemplate(
-        std::string const &defaultValue, std::string const &positiveMask);
 } // namespace json
 } // namespace openPMD
diff --git a/src/auxiliary/JSON.cpp b/src/auxiliary/JSON.cpp
index 5c78989d46..1472e96558 100644
--- a/src/auxiliary/JSON.cpp
+++ b/src/auxiliary/JSON.cpp
@@ -632,26 +632,4 @@ filterByTemplate(nlohmann::json &defaultVal, nlohmann::json const &positiveMask)
     } // else noop
     return defaultVal;
 }
-
-std::string filterByTemplate(
-    std::string const &defaultValue, std::string const &positiveMask)
-{
-    auto [res, returnFormat] =
-        parseOptions(defaultValue, /* considerFiles = */ false);
-    filterByTemplate(
-        res, parseOptions(positiveMask, /* considerFiles = */ false).config);
-    switch (returnFormat)
-    {
-    case SupportedLanguages::JSON:
-        return res.dump();
-        break;
-    case SupportedLanguages::TOML: {
-        auto asToml = json::jsonToToml(res);
-        std::stringstream sstream;
-        sstream << asToml;
-        return sstream.str();
-    }
-    }
-    throw std::runtime_error("Unreachable!");
-}
 } // namespace openPMD::json
diff --git a/src/binding/python/Series.cpp b/src/binding/python/Series.cpp
index c575dc49f1..ed2a4180a8 100644
--- a/src/binding/python/Series.cpp
+++ b/src/binding/python/Series.cpp
@@ -434,9 +434,4 @@ users to overwrite default options, while keeping any other ones.
                  If `defaultValue` was a JSON dataset, then as a JSON string,
                  otherwise as a TOML string.
         )END");
-    m.def(
-        "filter_json_by_template",
-        &json::filterByTemplate,
-        py::arg("default_value") = "{}",
-        py::arg("positive_mask") = "{}");
 }