[jsword-devel] UnsupportedOperationException!

[Chris Burrell]

I agree with Martin. Usually deprecated means the methods still work and
are kept for 1 or 2 releases before being removed. There are different
policies around. For example Java SDK deprecates which essentially means
the use of a method is undesirable (and presumably bugs wouldn't be fixed,
nor behaviour guaranteed to be consistent).

Other people like the JQuery folk, keep the methods around for 1 release,
sometimes longer, before getting rid of them.

I'd be in favour of keeping the method only if:
a- it still works as expected
b- we intend to remove it.

if we change the expected behaviour, I would personally remove it
completely to force users to update their latest release.

Chris



On 11 April 2013 20:32, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, they are deprecated, but so many methods are deprecated that I was
> living with the deprecations for now.  Personally I would rather only mark
> methods as deprecated if they still, at least partially, function.  If the
> method doesn't work I would delete it.
>
> But it is okay, eventually I will hopefully get rid of all of the
> deprecations and UOE crashes.
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 11 April 2013 20:26, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
>> They should be marked as deprecated. The idea is that they aide
>> migration, but will be removed in an immediately following release.
>>
>> Did I miss marking them?
>>
>> In Him,
>>         DM
>> On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Some methods, particularly in BibleBook, throw
>> UnsupportedOperationException.  Would it be better to simply remove these
>> methods so that we get a compile error rather than occasional runtime
>> exceptions?
>> >
>> > Martin
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