Merge pull request github#8347 from erik-krogh/depBeGone

remove all deprecations that are over a year old

Author: erik-krogh

config/blame-deprecations.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import fs from "fs";
+import path from "path";
+import cp from "child_process";
+function* walk(dir) {
+  for (const file of fs.readdirSync(dir)) {
+    const filePath = path.join(dir, file);
+    if (fs.statSync(filePath).isDirectory()) {
+      yield* walk(filePath);
+    } else {
+      yield filePath;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+function* deprecatedFiles(dir) {
+  for (const file of walk(dir)) {
+    if (file.endsWith(".ql") || file.endsWith(".qll")) {
+      const contents = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
+      if (/\sdeprecated\s/.test(contents)) {
+        yield file;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const blameRegExp =
+  /^(\^?\w+)\s.+\s+(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2} (?:\+|-)\d{4})\s+(\d+)\).*$/;
+
+function* deprecationMessages(dir) {
+  for (const file of deprecatedFiles(dir)) {
+    const blame = cp.execFileSync("git", ["blame", "--", file]);
+    const lines = blame.toString().split("\n");
+    for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
+      const line = lines[i];
+      if (line.includes(" deprecated ")) {
+        try {
+          const [_, sha, time, lineNumber] = line.match(blameRegExp);
+          const date = new Date(time);
+          // check if it's within the last 14 months (a year, plus 2 months for safety, in case a PR was delayed)
+          if (date.getTime() >= Date.now() - 14 * 31 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) {
+            continue;
+          }
+          const message = `${file}:${lineNumber} was last updated on ${date.getFullYear()}-${date.getMonth()}-${date.getDate()}`;
+          yield [message, date];
+        } catch (e) {
+          console.log(e);
+          console.log("----");
+          console.log(line);
+          console.log("----");
+          process.exit(0);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+[...deprecationMessages(".")]
+  .sort((a, b) => a[1].getTime() - b[1].getTime())
+  .forEach((msg) => console.log(msg[0]));

cpp/ql/lib/change-notes/2022-02-07-deleted-deprecations.md

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+category: minorAnalysis
+---
+* All deprecated predicates/classes/modules that have been deprecated for over a year have been deleted.

cpp/ql/lib/cpp.qll

@@ -69,6 +69,4 @@ import semmle.code.cpp.Comments
 import semmle.code.cpp.Preprocessor
 import semmle.code.cpp.Iteration
 import semmle.code.cpp.NameQualifiers
-import semmle.code.cpp.ObjectiveC
-import semmle.code.cpp.exprs.ObjectiveC
 import DefaultOptions

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/Class.qll

@@ -111,24 +111,6 @@ class Class extends UserType {
     result = this.getCanonicalMember(index).(TemplateVariable).getAnInstantiation()
   }
 
-  /**
-   * DEPRECATED: Use `getCanonicalMember(int)` or `getAMember(int)` instead.
-   * Gets the `index`th member of this class.
-   */
-  deprecated Declaration getMember(int index) {
-    member(underlyingElement(this), index, unresolveElement(result))
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * DEPRECATED: As this includes a somewhat arbitrary number of
-   *             template instantiations, it is unlikely to do what
-   *             you need.
-   * Gets the number of members that this class has. This includes both
-   * templates that are in this class, and instantiations of those
-   * templates.
-   */
-  deprecated int getNumMember() { result = count(this.getAMember()) }
-
   /**
    * Gets a private member declared in this class, struct or union.
    * For template members, this may be either the template or an
@@ -208,23 +190,6 @@ class Class extends UserType {
    */
   deprecated predicate hasCopyConstructor() { this.getAMemberFunction() instanceof CopyConstructor }
 
-  /**
-   * Holds if this class has a copy assignment operator that is either
-   * explicitly declared (though possibly `= delete`) or is auto-generated,
-   * non-trivial and called from somewhere.
-   *
-   * DEPRECATED: There is more than one reasonable definition of what it means
-   * to have a copy assignment operator, and we do not want to promote one
-   * particular definition by naming it with this predicate. Having a copy
-   * assignment operator could mean that such a member is declared or defined
-   * in the source or that it is callable by a particular caller. For C++11,
-   * there's also a question of whether to include members that are defaulted
-   * or deleted.
-   */
-  deprecated predicate hasCopyAssignmentOperator() {
-    this.getAMemberFunction() instanceof CopyAssignmentOperator
-  }
-
   /**
    * Like accessOfBaseMember but returns multiple results if there are multiple
    * paths to `base` through the inheritance graph.
@@ -1070,31 +1035,6 @@ class PartialClassTemplateSpecialization extends ClassTemplateSpecialization {
   override string getAPrimaryQlClass() { result = "PartialClassTemplateSpecialization" }
 }
 
-/**
- * An "interface" is a class that only contains pure virtual functions (and contains
- * at least one such function).  For example:
- * ```
- * class MyInterfaceClass {
- * public:
- *   virtual void myMethod1() = 0;
- *   virtual void myMethod2() = 0;
- * };
- * ```
- *
- * DEPRECATED: This class is considered to be too specific for general usage.
- */
-deprecated class Interface extends Class {
-  Interface() {
-    forex(Declaration m |
-      m.getDeclaringType() = this.getABaseClass*() and not compgenerated(unresolveElement(m))
-    |
-      m instanceof PureVirtualFunction
-    )
-  }
-
-  override string getAPrimaryQlClass() { result = "Interface" }
-}
-
 /**
  * A class/struct derivation that is virtual.  For example the derivation in
  * the following code is a `VirtualClassDerivation`:

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/Element.qll

@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ class ElementBase extends @element {
   cached
   string toString() { none() }
 
-  /** DEPRECATED: use `getAPrimaryQlClass` instead. */
-  deprecated string getCanonicalQLClass() { result = this.getAPrimaryQlClass() }
-
   /**
    * Gets a comma-separated list of the names of the primary CodeQL classes to which this element belongs.
    */
@@ -91,13 +88,6 @@ class Element extends ElementBase {
    */
   predicate fromSource() { this.getFile().fromSource() }
 
-  /**
-   * Holds if this element may be from a library.
-   *
-   * DEPRECATED: always true.
-   */
-  deprecated predicate fromLibrary() { this.getFile().fromLibrary() }
-
   /** Gets the primary location of this element. */
   Location getLocation() { none() }
 

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/File.qll

@@ -196,31 +196,11 @@ class Folder extends Container, @folder {
    */
   deprecated string getName() { folders(underlyingElement(this), result) }
 
-  /**
-   * DEPRECATED: use `getAbsolutePath` instead.
-   * Holds if this element is named `name`.
-   */
-  deprecated predicate hasName(string name) { name = this.getName() }
-
-  /**
-   * DEPRECATED: use `getAbsolutePath` instead.
-   * Gets the full name of this folder.
-   */
-  deprecated string getFullName() { result = this.getName() }
-
   /**
    * DEPRECATED: use `getBaseName` instead.
    * Gets the last part of the folder name.
    */
   deprecated string getShortName() { result = this.getBaseName() }
-
-  /**
-   * DEPRECATED: use `getParentContainer` instead.
-   * Gets the parent folder.
-   */
-  deprecated Folder getParent() {
-    containerparent(unresolveElement(result), underlyingElement(this))
-  }
 }
 
 /**
@@ -308,13 +288,6 @@ class File extends Container, @file {
    */
   override predicate fromSource() { numlines(underlyingElement(this), _, _, _) }
 
-  /**
-   * Holds if this file may be from a library.
-   *
-   * DEPRECATED: For historical reasons this is true for any file.
-   */
-  deprecated override predicate fromLibrary() { any() }
-
   /** Gets the metric file. */
   MetricFile getMetrics() { result = this }
 
@@ -428,25 +401,3 @@ class CppFile extends File {
 
   override string getAPrimaryQlClass() { result = "CppFile" }
 }
-
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: Objective-C is no longer supported.
- * An Objective C source file, as determined by file extension.
- *
- * For the related notion of whether a file is compiled as Objective C
- * code, use `File.compiledAsObjC`.
- */
-deprecated class ObjCFile extends File {
-  ObjCFile() { none() }
-}
-
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: Objective-C is no longer supported.
- * An Objective C++ source file, as determined by file extension.
- *
- * For the related notion of whether a file is compiled as Objective C++
- * code, use `File.compiledAsObjCpp`.
- */
-deprecated class ObjCppFile extends File {
-  ObjCppFile() { none() }
-}

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/Location.qll

@@ -105,25 +105,6 @@ class Location extends @location {
   }
 }
 
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: Use `Location` instead.
- * A location of an element. Not used for expressions or statements, which
- * instead use LocationExpr and LocationStmt respectively.
- */
-deprecated library class LocationDefault extends Location, @location_default { }
-
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: Use `Location` instead.
- * A location of a statement.
- */
-deprecated library class LocationStmt extends Location, @location_stmt { }
-
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: Use `Location` instead.
- * A location of an expression.
- */
-deprecated library class LocationExpr extends Location, @location_expr { }
-
 /**
  * Gets the length of the longest line in file `f`.
  */

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/Macro.qll

@@ -30,16 +30,6 @@ class Macro extends PreprocessorDirective, @ppd_define {
     else result = "#define " + this.getHead() + " " + this.getBody()
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Holds if the body of the macro starts with an unmatched closing
-   * parenthesis. For example:
-   *
-   *   #define RPAREN() )
-   *
-   * DEPRECATED: This predicate has a misleading name.
-   */
-  deprecated predicate isFunctionLike() { this.getBody().regexpMatch("[^(]*\\).*") }
-
   /**
    * Gets the name of the macro.  For example, `MAX` in
    * `#define MAX(x,y) (((x)>(y))?(x):(y))`.
@@ -261,46 +251,6 @@ class MacroInvocation extends MacroAccess {
   string getExpandedArgument(int i) { macro_argument_expanded(underlyingElement(this), i, result) }
 }
 
-/**
- * A top-level expression generated by a macro invocation.
- *
- * DEPRECATED: Use `MacroInvocation.getExpr()` directly to get an
- * expression generated at the top-level of a macro invocation.  Use
- * `MacroInvocation.getAnAffectedElement()` to get any element generated
- * by a macro invocation.
- */
-deprecated class MacroInvocationExpr extends Expr {
-  MacroInvocationExpr() { exists(MacroInvocation i | this = i.getExpr()) }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets the macro invocation of which this is the top-level expression.
-   */
-  MacroInvocation getInvocation() { result.getExpr() = this }
-
-  /** Gets the name of the invoked macro. */
-  string getMacroName() { result = this.getInvocation().getMacroName() }
-}
-
-/**
- * A top-level statement generated by a macro invocation.
- *
- * DEPRECATED: Use `MacroInvocation.getStmt()` directly to get a
- * statement generated at the top-level of a macro invocation.  Use
- * `MacroInvocation.getAnAffectedElement()` to get any element generated
- * by a macro invocation.
- */
-deprecated class MacroInvocationStmt extends Stmt {
-  MacroInvocationStmt() { exists(MacroInvocation i | this = i.getStmt()) }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets the macro invocation of which this is the top-level statement.
-   */
-  MacroInvocation getInvocation() { result.getStmt() = this }
-
-  /** Gets the name of the invoked macro. */
-  string getMacroName() { result = this.getInvocation().getMacroName() }
-}
-
 /** Holds if `l` is the location of a macro. */
 predicate macroLocation(Location l) { macrolocationbind(_, l) }
 

cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/MemberFunction.qll

@@ -233,40 +233,6 @@ class ImplicitConversionFunction extends MemberFunction {
   Type getDestType() { none() } // overridden in subclasses
 }
 
-/**
- * DEPRECATED: as of C++11 this class does not correspond perfectly with the
- * language definition of a converting constructor.
- *
- * A C++ constructor that also defines an implicit conversion. For example the
- * function `MyClass` in the following code is a `ConversionConstructor`:
- * ```
- * class MyClass {
- * public:
- *   MyClass(const MyOtherClass &from) {
- *     ...
- *   }
- * };
- * ```
- */
-deprecated class ConversionConstructor extends Constructor, ImplicitConversionFunction {
-  ConversionConstructor() {
-    strictcount(Parameter p | p = this.getAParameter() and not p.hasInitializer()) = 1 and
-    not this.hasSpecifier("explicit")
-  }
-
-  override string getAPrimaryQlClass() {
-    not this instanceof CopyConstructor and
-    not this instanceof MoveConstructor and
-    result = "ConversionConstructor"
-  }
-
-  /** Gets the type this `ConversionConstructor` takes as input. */
-  override Type getSourceType() { result = this.getParameter(0).getType() }
-
-  /** Gets the type this `ConversionConstructor` is a constructor of. */
-  override Type getDestType() { result = this.getDeclaringType() }
-}
-
 private predicate hasCopySignature(MemberFunction f) {
   f.getParameter(0).getUnspecifiedType().(LValueReferenceType).getBaseType() = f.getDeclaringType()
 }