md5Hex no longer works in MVEL scripts (taken out 2014-07-29)

[AaronM04]

I apologize if an issue already exists for this; I am having trouble searching for issues...

I noticed that this code was removed in a "cleanup" commit ( 86ceabf by @kimchy ), apparently under the impression that it was only used for tests. People have been using it in their production MVEL scripts for pseudo-random shuffling. Is this something we should bring back? Is there another way to do pseudo-random shuffling (I tried using function_score, but could not get it to work)?

[spinscale]

maybe you can show an example how you use it for pseudo-random shuffling and we can check, if you can have the same behaviour with function_score, before bringing it back (seems cleaner with function score from my outside point of view)?

[imotov]

I think figuring why function score doesn't work is the way to go. However, you can also simply implement the functionality of the old md5Hex function in your script.

[AaronM04]

I withdraw my request. :-)

[clintongormley]

Not an issue. closing