Chore: remove undocumented defaults() method (refs #9161) (#9237)

lib/linter.js

@@ -1039,14 +1039,6 @@ class Linter {
         });
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Gets the default eslint configuration.
-     * @returns {Object} Object mapping rule IDs to their default configurations
-     */
-    defaults() { // eslint-disable-line class-methods-use-this
-        return defaultConfig;
-    }
-
     /**
      * Gets an object with all loaded rules.
      * @returns {Map} All loaded rules

tests/lib/linter.js

@@ -908,12 +908,8 @@ describe("Linter", () => {
         }
 
         it("should pass parser as parserPath to all rules when default parser is used", () => {
-
-            const DEFAULT_PARSER = linter.defaults().parser;
-
-            linter.reset();
             linter.defineRule("test-rule", sandbox.mock().withArgs(
-                sinon.match({ parserPath: DEFAULT_PARSER })
+                sinon.match({ parserPath: "espree" })
             ).returns({}));
 
             const config = { rules: { "test-rule": 2 } };
@@ -2392,14 +2388,6 @@ describe("Linter", () => {
         });
     });
 
-    describe("when calling defaults", () => {
-        it("should return back config object", () => {
-            const config = linter.defaults();
-
-            assert.isNotNull(config.rules);
-        });
-    });
-
     describe("when calling getRules", () => {
         it("should return all loaded rules", () => {
             const rules = linter.getRules();