Deprecations in 1.5

Owned by Anastasia Cheetham
Last updated: May 26, 2014 by Justin Obara
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This page lists things in Infusion that will be deprecated in 1.5, in particular things that we plan to remove entirely in 2.0

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FSS (we're not replacing this)(tick) 

demands

  • instead, use distributeOptions and dynamic grades instead
(tick) 
use of components which are not "autoInit" - including the return of nonComponent material from a creator function, and manual attachment of components to trees  

the use of manual lifecycle points (postInit, finalInit, preInit)

  • instead, use two new configuration blocks: modelListeners and new listener block with member named 'changePath'
  

the use of manual component initialisation functions such as fluid.initLittleComponent and fluid.initViewComponent

  • instead, use grades and autoInit
  
the use of legacy IoC expressions such as "@1", "@2", "COMPONENT_OPTIONS" etc.  
the option "returnedPath" (and "returnedOptions", which is gone already)N/A 

changeApplier and model features:

  • The special changeApplier events "guards" and "postGuards"
  • Our vestigial "superApplier" ("fluid.makeSuperApplier")
  • The utility "fluid.model.copyModel" (simply use "fluid.copy" since we don't believe in shared model references any more)
  • The mergePolicy "preserve"
  • The ChangeApplier event type "MERGE" (only "ADD" and "DELETE" will be supported)
(tick) 
 
 
 
 
 
The use of fluid.tryCatch()N/A 

Event features:

  • The name "fluid.event.getEventFirer" (in favour of the simpler name "fluid.makeEventFirer")
  • "unicast events"
  • Note that any arguments to fluid.makeEventFirer are not a public API, this signature will change when we implement "latched events" and abolish "unicast events"
(tick) except for arguments to makeEventFirer - not sure what that means 
Progress events and callbacks onProgressBegin and afterProgressHidden(tick) 

The old names "fluid.model.setBeanValue" and "fluid.model.getBeanValue"

  • instead, use "fluid.model.set" and "fluid.model.get"
N/A 
fluid.lightbox (use fluid.imageReorderer) - some css there as well?  
stuff in Fluid.js e.g. fluid.keyForVaue()...  
path utilities in DataBinding (not documented anyway?)  
fl-ProgEnhance-basic is deprecated, and replaced by fl-progEnhance-basic  

Renderer ?

  • (we don't have a replacement yet)we expect to have a replacement by 2.0
  • not sure if 2.0 will abolish the renderer or merely deprecate it