Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#21188 closed Cleanup/optimization

Use DeprecationWarning subclasses for deprecated features — at Initial Version

Reported by: Anssi Kääriäinen Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Other) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: adi@… Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The idea is to introduce new deprecation subclass for each Django version. For example, in current master:

class ToBeRemovedInDjango19Warning(PendingDeprecationWarning):
    pass


class ToBeRemovedInDjango18Warning(DeprecationWarning):
    pass

By using these warnings we can achieve the following:

  • Moving PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning after release is single line change.
  • It will be possible to filter on Django's deprecation warnings without caching warnings from non-django components.
  • It will be harder to miss removal of code. After 1.7 is released just remove ToBeRemovedInDjango18Warning. Any code importing that warning will immediately fail. Also, grepping might be a little easier.
  • After release, currently introducing a new PendingDeprecationWarning before PendingDeprecationWarnings are renamed to DeprecationWarnings (as part of release procedure) the new deprecatin will likely be moved to DeprecationWarning. But if a ToBeRemovedInDjango20Warning is added it will be really hard to accidentally move that one to DeprecationWarning.
  • It will be technically easy to provide for longer than two releases deprecation periods (if we ever want this).

Drawbacks:

  • If we use automatic filtering for deprecations, then code currently doing:

warning.simplefilter("always", DeprecationWarning)

will no longer catch Django's deprecation warnings (as we added an entry for warning.simplefilter("default" ToBeRemovedInDjango18Warning) which matches before DeprecationWarning.

I tried this approach in: https://github.com/akaariai/django/compare/deprecation_subclasses#L3R18 - The patch is totally incomplete so I will not mark "has patch".

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