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Deprecate all the things | |
> With great modules comes great responsibility; mark things deprecated! | |
## Install | |
This module is installed directly using `npm`: | |
```sh | |
$ npm install depd | |
``` | |
This module can also be bundled with systems like | |
[Browserify](http://browserify.org/) or [webpack](https://webpack.github.io/), | |
though by default this module will alter it's API to no longer display or | |
track deprecations. | |
## API | |
<!-- eslint-disable no-unused-vars --> | |
```js | |
var deprecate = require('depd')('my-module') | |
``` | |
This library allows you to display deprecation messages to your users. | |
This library goes above and beyond with deprecation warnings by | |
introspection of the call stack (but only the bits that it is interested | |
in). | |
Instead of just warning on the first invocation of a deprecated | |
function and never again, this module will warn on the first invocation | |
of a deprecated function per unique call site, making it ideal to alert | |
users of all deprecated uses across the code base, rather than just | |
whatever happens to execute first. | |
The deprecation warnings from this module also include the file and line | |
information for the call into the module that the deprecated function was | |
in. | |
**NOTE** this library has a similar interface to the `debug` module, and | |
this module uses the calling file to get the boundary for the call stacks, | |
so you should always create a new `deprecate` object in each file and not | |
within some central file. | |
### depd(namespace) | |
Create a new deprecate function that uses the given namespace name in the | |
messages and will display the call site prior to the stack entering the | |
file this function was called from. It is highly suggested you use the | |
name of your module as the namespace. | |
### deprecate(message) | |
Call this function from deprecated code to display a deprecation message. | |
This message will appear once per unique caller site. Caller site is the | |
first call site in the stack in a different file from the caller of this | |
function. | |
If the message is omitted, a message is generated for you based on the site | |
of the `deprecate()` call and will display the name of the function called, | |
similar to the name displayed in a stack trace. | |
### deprecate.function(fn, message) | |
Call this function to wrap a given function in a deprecation message on any | |
call to the function. An optional message can be supplied to provide a custom | |
message. | |
### deprecate.property(obj, prop, message) | |
Call this function to wrap a given property on object in a deprecation message | |
on any accessing or setting of the property. An optional message can be supplied | |
to provide a custom message. | |
The method must be called on the object where the property belongs (not | |
inherited from the prototype). | |
If the property is a data descriptor, it will be converted to an accessor | |
descriptor in order to display the deprecation message. | |
### process.on('deprecation', fn) | |
This module will allow easy capturing of deprecation errors by emitting the | |
errors as the type "deprecation" on the global `process`. If there are no | |
listeners for this type, the errors are written to STDERR as normal, but if | |
there are any listeners, nothing will be written to STDERR and instead only | |
emitted. From there, you can write the errors in a different format or to a | |
logging source. | |
The error represents the deprecation and is emitted only once with the same | |
rules as writing to STDERR. The error has the following properties: | |
- `message` - This is the message given by the library | |
- `name` - This is always `'DeprecationError'` | |
- `namespace` - This is the namespace the deprecation came from | |
- `stack` - This is the stack of the call to the deprecated thing | |
Example `error.stack` output: | |
``` | |
DeprecationError: my-cool-module deprecated oldfunction | |
at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22) | |
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) | |
at evalScript (node.js:532:25) | |
at startup (node.js:80:7) | |
at node.js:902:3 | |
``` | |
### process.env.NO_DEPRECATION | |
As a user of modules that are deprecated, the environment variable `NO_DEPRECATION` | |
is provided as a quick solution to silencing deprecation warnings from being | |
output. The format of this is similar to that of `DEBUG`: | |
```sh | |
$ NO_DEPRECATION=my-module,othermod node app.js | |
``` | |
This will suppress deprecations from being output for "my-module" and "othermod". | |
The value is a list of comma-separated namespaces. To suppress every warning | |
across all namespaces, use the value `*` for a namespace. | |
Providing the argument `--no-deprecation` to the `node` executable will suppress | |
all deprecations (only available in Node.js 0.8 or higher). | |
**NOTE** This will not suppress the deperecations given to any "deprecation" | |
event listeners, just the output to STDERR. | |
### process.env.TRACE_DEPRECATION | |
As a user of modules that are deprecated, the environment variable `TRACE_DEPRECATION` | |
is provided as a solution to getting more detailed location information in deprecation | |
warnings by including the entire stack trace. The format of this is the same as | |
`NO_DEPRECATION`: | |
```sh | |
$ TRACE_DEPRECATION=my-module,othermod node app.js | |
``` | |
This will include stack traces for deprecations being output for "my-module" and | |
"othermod". The value is a list of comma-separated namespaces. To trace every | |
warning across all namespaces, use the value `*` for a namespace. | |
Providing the argument `--trace-deprecation` to the `node` executable will trace | |
all deprecations (only available in Node.js 0.8 or higher). | |
**NOTE** This will not trace the deperecations silenced by `NO_DEPRECATION`. | |
## Display | |
![message](files/message.png) | |
When a user calls a function in your library that you mark deprecated, they | |
will see the following written to STDERR (in the given colors, similar colors | |
and layout to the `debug` module): | |
``` | |
bright cyan bright yellow | |
| | reset cyan | |
| | | | | |
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ | |
my-cool-module deprecated oldfunction [eval]-wrapper:6:22 | |
▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ | |
| | | | | |
namespace | | location of mycoolmod.oldfunction() call | |
| deprecation message | |
the word "deprecated" | |
``` | |
If the user redirects their STDERR to a file or somewhere that does not support | |
colors, they see (similar layout to the `debug` module): | |
``` | |
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 05:21:37 GMT my-cool-module deprecated oldfunction at [eval]-wrapper:6:22 | |
▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ | |
| | | | | | |
timestamp of message namespace | | location of mycoolmod.oldfunction() call | |
| deprecation message | |
the word "deprecated" | |
``` | |
## Examples | |
### Deprecating all calls to a function | |
This will display a deprecated message about "oldfunction" being deprecated | |
from "my-module" on STDERR. | |
```js | |
var deprecate = require('depd')('my-cool-module') | |
// message automatically derived from function name | |
// Object.oldfunction | |
exports.oldfunction = deprecate.function(function oldfunction () { | |
// all calls to function are deprecated | |
}) | |
// specific message | |
exports.oldfunction = deprecate.function(function () { | |
// all calls to function are deprecated | |
}, 'oldfunction') | |
``` | |
### Conditionally deprecating a function call | |
This will display a deprecated message about "weirdfunction" being deprecated | |
from "my-module" on STDERR when called with less than 2 arguments. | |
```js | |
var deprecate = require('depd')('my-cool-module') | |
exports.weirdfunction = function () { | |
if (arguments.length < 2) { | |
// calls with 0 or 1 args are deprecated | |
deprecate('weirdfunction args < 2') | |
} | |
} | |
``` | |
When calling `deprecate` as a function, the warning is counted per call site | |
within your own module, so you can display different deprecations depending | |
on different situations and the users will still get all the warnings: | |
```js | |
var deprecate = require('depd')('my-cool-module') | |
exports.weirdfunction = function () { | |
if (arguments.length < 2) { | |
// calls with 0 or 1 args are deprecated | |
deprecate('weirdfunction args < 2') | |
} else if (typeof arguments[0] !== 'string') { | |
// calls with non-string first argument are deprecated | |
deprecate('weirdfunction non-string first arg') | |
} | |
} | |
``` | |
### Deprecating property access | |
This will display a deprecated message about "oldprop" being deprecated | |
from "my-module" on STDERR when accessed. A deprecation will be displayed | |
when setting the value and when getting the value. | |
```js | |
var deprecate = require('depd')('my-cool-module') | |
exports.oldprop = 'something' | |
// message automatically derives from property name | |
deprecate.property(exports, 'oldprop') | |
// explicit message | |
deprecate.property(exports, 'oldprop', 'oldprop >= 0.10') | |
``` | |
## License | |
[MIT](LICENSE) | |
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