In https://sonarsource.atlassian.net/browse/JS-166, we made sure to not serialize the AST when there is no consumer.

We assumed that the presence of a consumer means that it will do something with it.

That being said, we are in a development state, where armor is not always enabled. As an intermediate state, we need to make sure that, even if the Armor consumer is present, we only serialize the AST if the flag sonar.armor.internal.enabled is set to true.

Note that it is not possible to communicate this information at runtime on the Armor side since the Armor plugin will be executed afterward.