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Re: Calling deprecated methods

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:09:11 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote:

> I always thought deprecating a method means there is a different method
> signature that is recommended to call that is going to do the same thing
> in a better way, and all calls to the old method should be changed asap?
>
Don't forget that a deprecated method isn't replaced by a drop-in 
replacement: if such a replacement is possible, you'd merely scrape out 
the old code and drop in the new. No deprecation needed. A good example 
would be upgrading a sort() method from the bubble sort to the quicksort 
algorithm.

Deprecated methods tend to have a revised API, i.e. returning a 
Collection or a List instead of an array, so you'd want to deprecate the 
older method as an indication that Java now provides better ways of 
handling data passed to or from the method, i.e. if our sort() method
now returns a List or Collection instead of Object[].
    
> Does it make sense to just keep calling the deprecated method and have
> to tell your compiler to ignore that, or why would Oracle deprecate
> their own method they're still calling?
>
Yes, they would and have deprecated their own methods, usually for the 
sort of reasons I've just used as examples.


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Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 08:09 -0800
  Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 16:31 +0000
    Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 10:24 -0800
      Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 20:05 +0000
        Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-12 15:41 -0500
          Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 21:04 +0000
            Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-12 13:33 -0800
              Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-12 22:41 +0000
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-12 17:57 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 04:51 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-13 08:21 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 05:40 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-13 15:19 +0000
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 07:57 -0800
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-13 17:30 +0000

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