Confluence 3.1 Deprecated Code Cleanup

Release Notes 3.1-m3 ("Milestone 3")

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This document contains information for Confluence plugin developers regarding changes to the Confluence codebase in the upcoming 3.1 release.

Confluence 3.1 Deprecation Cleanup

Every major Confluence release, we clean up the codebase by removing classes and methods that have been deprecated in previous releases. These changes were included in the Milestone 2 release of Confluence 3.1. We strongly encourage plugin developers to test their plugins against our milestone releases.

If the removal of these classes or methods causes you significant problems maintaining your plugins, please let us know. We will work with you to find a workaround, or possibly reinstate the code before the final release. (Note that the longer the code in question has been deprecated, the less inclined we will be to replace it. Some of the stuff we've removed here will have been giving you compiler warnings for years.)

More information on our guidelines for removing deprecated code: Deprecation Guidelines

Changes in Confluence 3.1 Milestone 2

For the sake of brevity, the com.atlassian.confluence part of package names has been omitted.

Removed Classes

Class

Deprecated Since

.pages.BreadcrumbsManager
.pages.DefaultBreadcrumbsManager

2.7

.plugin.descriptor.web.conditions.user.UserHasHistoryCondition

2.8

.util.VelocityUtils

2.0

.util.PageComparator

2.3

.util.ResourceManager
com.atlassian.confluence.util.DefaultResourceManager

2.8

.event.EventListener
com.atlassian.confluence.event.DeprecatedEventListenerWrapper

2.3

.servlet.download.ResourceDownload

2.101

.renderer.radeox.macros.include.AbstractHttpRetrievalMacro

2.72

.macro.macros.AbstractHtmlGeneratingMacro

2.72

bucket.search.EntityObjectDateExtractor

1.4

bucket.container.ContainerManager
bucket.container.ContainerContext

2.3

1 While the ResourceDownload class was only deprecated in 2.10, it could only ever be used in the context of the ResourceManager which was deprecated earlier. It is very unlikely that code exists that relies on one but not the other.
2 These Radeox macros were superseded by the equivalent V2Renderer macros in Confluence 1.4, but only marked as deprecated in the 2.7 release

Removed Constants

Since Java inlines constant references during compilation, the removal of constants should not break binary compatibility with any plugin that references them.

Class

Constant

Deprecated Since

.search.lucene.extractor.PageContentEntityObjectExtractor

PAGE_REAL_TITLE

2.8

.security.SpacePermission

ADMINISTER_CONFLUENCE_PERMISSION

2.7

.setup.Bandana.ConfluenceDaoBandanaPersister

GLOBAL_BANDANA_CONTEXT

2.8

Removed Methods

Class

Method

Deprecated Since

Notes

.core.ConfluenceActionSupport

ThemeHelper getGlobalHelper()

2.0

Support for pre-2.0 themes

 

ThemeHelper getSpaceHelper()

2.0

Support for pre-2.0 themes

.core.ContentEntityManager

Iterator getRecentlyModifiedEntities(int maxResults)

2.0

use the SearchManager for this kind of query

.core.ContentEntityObject

String getRealTitle()

2.8

use getDisplayTitle() instead

.core.ContentPermissionManager

List getInheritedViewContentPermissions(Page page)

2.5

 

.core.persistence.ContentEntityObjectDao

Iterator getRecentlyModifiedEntitiesByType(ListQuery query, int firstResult)

2.8

use the SearchManager for this kind of query

.importexport.ExportContext

DateFormatter getDateFormatter()

2.8.2

 

.pages.AttachmentUtils

static File getOldContainingFolder(Attachment attachment)

2.2

 

.pages.actions.ViewPageAttachmentsAction

AttachmentHelper getTargetHelper(Attachment attachment)

2.8

use getWebInterfaceContext()

.plugin.editor.Editor

String getEditorSpecificCss()

2.8

 

.security.ContentPermission

String getGroup()

2.4

use getGroupName()

.security.PermissionManager

boolean isGlobalAdministrator(User user)

2.7

use isConfluenceAdministrator()

.setup.BootstrapManager

boolean isConfluenceHomeValid()
boolean isWebdavEnabled()
void setBaseUrl(String baseUrl)

2.8

use SettingsManager

.spaces.SpaceManager

boolean isValidSpaceKey(String key)

2.3

use Space.isValidGlobalSpaceKey()

 

boolean.isValidPersonalSpaceKey(String key)

2.3

use Space.isValidPersonalSpaceKey()

 

List getPages(Space space, boolean currentOnly)
List getPagesStartingWith(Space space, String prefix)
List getBlogPosts(Space space, boolean currentOnly)
List getMail(Space space, boolean currentOnly)
List getSpaces()
list getSpacesCreatedOrUpdatedSinceDate(Date date)

2.3

 

.spaces.Space

List getPages()
List getCurrentPages()
List getBlogPosts()
List getCurrentBlogPosts()
List getMail()
List getCurrentMail()

2.3

use PageManager

.user.PersonalInformationManager

PersonalInformation getPersonalInformation(String username)

2.3

use getPersonalInformation(User user)

.user.SearchEntitiesManager

SearchResult findGroups(TermQuery query)

2.8

use findGroupsAsList()

 

SearchResult findGroups(TermQuery query, boolean filter)

2.8

use findGroupsAsList()

 

SearchResult findUsers(Query query)

2.8

use findUsersAsList()

.util.GeneralUtil

String format(Date date)
formatTime(Date date)
formatBlogDate(Date date)
formatDateTime(Date date)

2.3

use $dateFormatter

 

isGlobalAdministrator(Object notUsedAnyMore, User user)

2.0

use PermissionManager or $permissionHelper

 

getProperties(String resource, Class caller)
getPropertiesFromFile(File file)
getPropertiesFromStream(InputStream is)

2.3

use PropertyUtils

.upgrade.AbstractUpgradeTask

addError(String message)
addError(Throwable throwable)

1.2

use addError(UpgradeError error)

Last modified on Nov 16, 2011

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