topic Re: Why is FileFolderService#makeFolders deprecated? in Alfresco Archive

Why is FileFolderService#makeFolders deprecated?

gyro_gearless — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:08:24 GMT

Hi folks,just wondered why method makeFolders() in interface org.alfresco.repo.model.filefolder.FileFolderService is marked as deprecated? :? Instead, a static method makeFolders() is provided in FileFolderServiceImpl, which is also used by the deprectated methodublic class FileFolderServiceImpl

Re: Why is FileFolderService#makeFolders deprecated?

mrogers — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:51:40 GMT

I think I agree with you. I'll talk to my collegues to see if anyone remembers changing it.

Re: Why is FileFolderService#makeFolders deprecated?

mrogers — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:52:35 GMT

There was a good reason which was that it was due to to security and auditing requirements as the makeFolders method walked down the path.

So I'm not going to un-deprecate makeFolders on FileFolderService. In fact I'm going to remove this long deprecated method entirely from the FileFolders interface.

Since I agree that its bad form to have to directly access an implementation class I'm also going to deprecate FileFolderServiceImpl.makeFolders and move the code to a separate utility class.