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<div class="document" id="deprecation">
<h1 class="title">Deprecation</h1>

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<div class="contents topic" id="table-of-contents">
<p class="topic-title first">Table of contents</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id22">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#deprecation-procedure" id="id23">Deprecation Procedure</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#deprecation-markers" id="id24">Deprecation markers</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-and-abi-compatibility" id="id25">API and ABI compatibility</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#experimental-features" id="id26">Experimental features</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#deprecation-in-the-bindings" id="id27">Deprecation in the bindings</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support-for-other-software" id="id28">Support for Other Software</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#how-to-avoid-using-deprecated-features" id="id29">How to avoid using deprecated features</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#features-currently-marked-for-deprecation" id="id30">Features currently marked for deprecation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#native-c-api" id="id31">Native C++ API</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#bindings" id="id32">Bindings</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#omega" id="id33">Omega</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#features-removed-from-xapian" id="id34">Features removed from Xapian</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id1" id="id35">Native C++ API</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id36">Bindings</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id21" id="id37">Omega</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="introduction">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">Introduction</a></h1>
<p>Xapian's API is fairly stable and has been polished piece by piece over time,
but it still occasionally needs to be changed.  This may be because a new
feature has been implemented and the interface needs to allow access to it, but
it may also be required in order to polish a rough edge which has been missed
in earlier versions of Xapian, or simply to reflect an internal change which
requires a modification to the external interface.</p>
<p>We aim to make such changes in a way that allows developers to work against a
stable API, while avoiding the need for the Xapian developers to maintain too
many old historical interface artefacts.  This document describes the process
we use to deprecate old pieces of the API, lists parts of the API which are
currently marked as deprecated, and also describes parts of the API which have
been deprecated for some time, and are now removed from the Xapian library.</p>
<p>It is possible for functions, methods, constants, types or even whole classes
to be deprecated, but to save words this document will often use the term
&quot;features&quot; to refer collectively to any of these types of interface items.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="deprecation-procedure">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Deprecation Procedure</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="deprecation-markers">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">Deprecation markers</a></h2>
<p>At any particular point, some parts of the C++ API will be marked as
&quot;deprecated&quot;.  This is indicated with the <tt class="docutils literal">XAPIAN_DEPRECATED()</tt> or
<tt class="docutils literal">XAPIAN_DEPRECATED_CLASS</tt> macros, which will cause compilers with appropriate
support (such as GCC 3.1 or later, and MSVC 7.0 or later) to emit warning
messages about the use of deprecated features at compile time.</p>
<p>If a feature is marked with one of these markers, you should avoid using it in
new code, and should migrate your code to use a replacement when possible.  The
documentation comments for the feature, or the list at the end
of this file, will describe possible alternatives to the deprecated feature.</p>
<p>If you want to disable deprecation warnings temporarily, you can do so
by passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;-DXAPIAN_DEPRECATED(X)=X&quot;</span></tt> to the compiler (the quotes are
needed to protect the brackets from the shell).  If your build system uses
make, you might do this like so:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
make 'CPPFLAGS=&quot;-DXAPIAN_DEPRECATED(X)=X&quot;'
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section" id="api-and-abi-compatibility">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">API and ABI compatibility</a></h2>
<p>Releases are given three-part version numbers (e.g. 1.2.9), the three parts
being termed &quot;major&quot; (1), &quot;minor&quot; (2), and &quot;revision&quot; (9).  Releases with
the same major and minor version are termed a &quot;release series&quot;.</p>
<p>For Xapian releases 1.0.0 and higher, an even minor version indicates a stable
release series, while an odd minor version indicates a development release
series.</p>
<p>Within a stable release series, we strive to maintain API and ABI forwards
compatibility.  This means that an application written and compiled against
version <cite>X.Y.a</cite> of Xapian should work, without any source changes or need to
recompile, with a later version <cite>X.Y.b</cite>, for all <cite>b</cite> &gt;= <cite>a</cite>.</p>
<p>Stable releases which increase the minor or major version number will usually
change the ABI incompatibly (so that code will need to be recompiled against
the newer release series.  They may also make incompatible API changes,
though we will attempt to do this in a way which makes it reasonably easy to
migrate applications, and document how to do so in this document.</p>
<p>It is possible that a feature may be marked as deprecated within a minor
release series - that is from version <cite>X.Y.c</cite>
onwards, where <cite>c</cite> is not zero.  The API and ABI will not be changed by this
deprecation, since the feature will still be available in the API (though the
change may cause the compiler to emit new warnings when rebuilding code
which uses the now-deprecated feature).</p>
<p>Users should generally be able to expect working code which uses Xapian not to
stop working without reason.  We attempt to codify this in the following
policy, but we reserve the right not to slavishly follow this.  The spirit of
the rule should kept in mind - for example if we discovered a feature which
didn't actually work, making an incompatible API change at the next ABI bump
would be reasonable.</p>
<p>Normally a feature will be supported after being deprecated for an entire
stable release series.  For example, if a feature is deprecated in release
1.2.0, it will be supported for the entire 1.2.x release series, and removed in
development release 1.3.0.  If a feature is deprecated in release 1.2.1, it
will be supported for the 1.2.x <em>and</em> 1.4.x stable release series (and of
course the 1.3.x release series in between), and won't be removed until
1.5.0.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="experimental-features">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26">Experimental features</a></h2>
<p>During a development release series (such as the 1.1.x series), some features
may be marked as &quot;experimental&quot;.  Such features are liable to change without
going through the normal deprecation procedure.  This includes changing on-disk
formats for data stored by the feature, and breaking API and ABI compatibility
between releases for the feature.  Such features are included in releases to
get wider use and corresponding feedback about them.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="deprecation-in-the-bindings">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27">Deprecation in the bindings</a></h2>
<p>When the Xapian API changes, the interface provided by the Xapian bindings will
usually change in step.  In addition, it is sometimes necessary to change the
way in which Xapian is wrapped by bindings - for example, to provide a better
convenience wrapper for iterators in Python.  Again, we aim to ensure that an
application written (and compiled, if the language being bound is a compiled
language) for version <cite>X.Y.a</cite> of Xapian should work without any changes or need
to recompile, with a later version <cite>X.Y.b</cite>, for all <cite>a</cite> &lt;= <cite>b</cite>.</p>
<p>However, the bindings are a little less mature than the core C++ API, so we
don't intend to give the same guarantee that a feature present and not
deprecated in version <cite>X.Y.a</cite> will work in all versions <cite>X+1.Y.b</cite>.  In other
words, we may remove features which have been deprecated without waiting for
an entire release series to pass.</p>
<p>Any planned deprecations will be documented in the list of deprecations and
removed features at the end of this file.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="support-for-other-software">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28">Support for Other Software</a></h1>
<p>Support for other software doesn't follow the same deprecation rules as
for API features.</p>
<p>Our guiding principle for supporting version of other software is that
we don't aim to actively support versions which are no longer supported
&quot;upstream&quot;.</p>
<p>So Xapian 1.1.0 doesn't support PHP4 because the PHP team no longer did
when it was released.  By the API deprecation rules we should have announced
this when Xapian 1.0.0 was released, but we don't have control over when and
to what timescales other software providers discontinue support for older
versions.</p>
<p>Sometimes we can support such versions without extra effort (e.g. Tcl's
stubs mechanism means Tcl 8.1 probably still works, even though the last
8.1.x release was over a decade ago), and in some cases Linux distros
continue to support software after upstream stops.</p>
<p>But in most cases keeping support around is a maintenance overhead and
we'd rather spend our time on more useful things.</p>
<p>Note that there's no guarantee that we will support and continue to
support versions just because upstream still does.  For example, we ceased
providing backported packages for Ubuntu dapper with Xapian 1.1.0 - in this
case, it's because we felt that if you're conservative enough to run dapper,
you'd probably prefer to stick with 1.0.x until you upgrade to hardy (the next
Ubuntu LTS release).  But we may decide not to support versions for other
reasons too.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="how-to-avoid-using-deprecated-features">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29">How to avoid using deprecated features</a></h1>
<p>We recommend taking the following steps to avoid depending on deprecated
features when writing your applications:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If at all possible, test compile your project using a compiler which
supports warnings about deprecated features (such as GCC 3.1 or later), and
check for such warnings.  Use the -Werror flag to GCC to ensure that you
don't miss any of them.</li>
<li>Check the NEWS file for each new release for details of any new features
which are deprecated in the release.</li>
<li>Check the documentation comments, or the automatically extracted API
documentation, for each feature you use in your application.  This
documentation will indicate features which are deprecated, or planned for
deprecation.</li>
<li>For applications which are not written in C++, there is currently no
equivalent of the <tt class="docutils literal">XAPIAN_DEPRECATED</tt> macro for the bindings, and thus
there is no way for the bindings to give a warning if a deprecated feature
is used.  This would be a nice addition for those languages in which there
is a reasonable way to give such warnings.  Until such a feature is
implemented, all application writers using the bindings can do is to check
the list of deprecated features in each new release, or lookup the features
they are using in the list at the end of this file.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="section" id="features-currently-marked-for-deprecation">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30">Features currently marked for deprecation</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="native-c-api">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31">Native C++ API</a></h2>
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<th class="head">Remove</th>
<th class="head">Feature name</th>
<th class="head">Upgrade suggestion and comments</th>
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<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>?</td>
<td>Xapian::WritableDatabase::flush()</td>
<td>Xapian::WritableDatabase::commit() should be used instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td>Default second parameter to
<tt class="docutils literal">Enquire</tt> sorting functions.</td>
<td><p class="first">The parameter name was <tt class="docutils literal">ascending</tt> and defaulted to <tt class="docutils literal">true</tt>.  However
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probably think of as ascending) while ascending=true gave the reverse
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and deprecated the default value.  In the more distant future, we'll
probably add a default again, but of <tt class="docutils literal">false</tt> instead.</p>
<p class="last">The methods affected are:
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value(Xapian::valueno</span> sort_key)</tt>
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_key(Xapian::Sorter</span> * sorter)</tt>
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance_then_key(Xapian::Sorter</span> * sorter)</tt></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.3</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td><tt class="docutils literal">Sorter</tt> abstract base class.</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">KeyMaker</tt> class instead, which has the same semantics, but has
been renamed to indicate that the keys produced may be used for purposes
other than sorting (we plan to allow collapsing on generated keys in the
future).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.3</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td><tt class="docutils literal">MultiValueSorter</tt> class.</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal">MultiValueKeyMaker</tt> class instead.  Note that
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MultiValueSorter::add()</span></tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MultiValueKeyMaker::add_value()</span></tt>,
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value()</span></tt>), so:</p>
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MultiValueSorter sorter;
// Primary ordering is forwards on value 4.
sorter.add(4);
// Secondary ordering is reverse on value 5.
sorter.add(5, false);
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<pre class="last literal-block">
MultiValueKeyMaker sorter;
// Primary ordering is forwards on value 4.
sorter.add_value(4);
// Secondary ordering is reverse on value 5.
sorter.add_value(5, true);
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</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.3</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td><tt class="docutils literal">matchspy</tt> parameter to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::get_mset()</span></tt></td>
<td>Use the newer <tt class="docutils literal">MatchSpy</tt> class and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::add_matchspy()</span></tt> method
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<th class="head">Remove</th>
<th class="head">Language</th>
<th class="head">Feature name</th>
<th class="head">Upgrade suggestion and comments</th>
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<tr><td>1.0.4</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>Non-pythonic iterators</td>
<td>Use the pythonic iterators instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>1.3.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>Stem_get_available_languages</td>
<td>Use Stem.get_available_languages instead (static method instead of
function)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.2.5</td>
<td>1.5.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>MSet.items</td>
<td>Iterate the MSet object itself instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.2.5</td>
<td>1.5.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>ESet.items</td>
<td>Iterate the ESet object itself instead.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="omega">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33">Omega</a></h2>
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<col width="28%" />
<col width="59%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Deprecated</th>
<th class="head">Remove</th>
<th class="head">Feature name</th>
<th class="head">Upgrade suggestion and comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>1.2.5</td>
<td>1.5.0</td>
<td>$set{spelling,true}</td>
<td>Use $set{flag_spelling_suggestion,true} instead.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<div class="section" id="features-removed-from-xapian">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34">Features removed from Xapian</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="id1">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id35">Native C++ API</a></h2>
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<colgroup>
<col width="6%" />
<col width="28%" />
<col width="66%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Removed</th>
<th class="head">Feature name</th>
<th class="head">Upgrade suggestion and comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>QueryParser::set_stemming_options()</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal">set_stemmer()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">set_stemming_strategy()</tt> and/or <tt class="docutils literal">set_stopper()</tt>
instead:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_options(&quot;&quot;)</span></tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_NONE)</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_options(&quot;none&quot;)</span></tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_NONE)</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_stemming_options(LANG)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemmer(Xapian::Stem(LANG)</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_SOME)</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_stemming_options(LANG, false)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemmer(Xapian::Stem(LANG)</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_SOME)</span></tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_stemming_options(LANG, true)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemmer(Xapian::Stem(LANG)</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_stemming_strategy(Xapian::QueryParser::STEM_ALL)</span></tt></li>
</ul>
<p class="last">If a third parameter is passed, <tt class="docutils literal">set_stopper(PARAM3)</tt> and treat the first two
parameters as above.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Enquire::set_sort_forward()</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_docid_order()</span></tt> instead:</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_forward(true)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_docid_order(ASCENDING)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_forward(false)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_docid_order(DESCENDING)</tt></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Enquire::set_sorting()</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance()</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value()</span></tt>, or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value_then_relevance()</span></tt> instead.</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_value(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1, false)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_value(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1, true)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_value_then_relevance(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(ANYTHING, 0)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_relevance()</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_sorting(Xapian::BAD_VALUENO,</span> ANYTHING)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_relevance()</tt></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Stem::stem_word(word)</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Stem::operator()(word)</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Auto::open(path)</td>
<td>Use the <tt class="docutils literal">Database(path)</tt> constructor instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Auto::open(path, action)</td>
<td>Use the <tt class="docutils literal">WritableDatabase(path, action)</tt> constructor instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Query::is_empty()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Query::empty()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Document::add_term_nopos()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Document::add_term()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Enquire::set_bias()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">PostingSource</tt> instead (new in 1.2).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>ExpandDecider::operator()</td>
<td>Return type is now <tt class="docutils literal">bool</tt> not <tt class="docutils literal">int</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>MatchDecider::operator()</td>
<td>Return type is now <tt class="docutils literal">bool</tt> not <tt class="docutils literal">int</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Error::get_type()</td>
<td>Return type is now <tt class="docutils literal">const char *</tt> not <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::string</span></tt>.  Most existing code
won't need changes, but if it does the simplest fix is to write
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::string(e.get_type())</span></tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">e.get_type()</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>&lt;xapian/output.h&gt;</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">cout &lt;&lt; <span class="pre">obj.get_description();</span></tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">cout &lt;&lt; obj;</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>Several constructors marked
as explicit.</td>
<td>Explicitly create the object type required, for example use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Xapian::Enquire</span> <span class="pre">enq(Xapian::Database(path));</span></tt> instead of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Xapian::Enquire</span> enq(path);</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>QueryParser::parse_query() throwing
<tt class="docutils literal">const char *</tt> exception.</td>
<td>Catch <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Xapian::QueryParserError</span></tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">const char *</tt>, and call
<tt class="docutils literal">get_msg()</tt> on the caught object.  If you need to build with either version,
catch both (you'll need to compile the part which catches <tt class="docutils literal">QueryParserError</tt>
conditionally, since this exception isn't present in the 0.9 release series).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>xapian_version_string()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">version_string()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>xapian_major_version()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">major_version()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>xapian_minor_version()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">minor_version()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>xapian_revision()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">revision()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Enquire::include_query_terms</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::INCLUDE_QUERY_TERMS</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Enquire::use_exact_termfreq</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::USE_EXACT_TERMFREQ</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Error::get_errno()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Error::get_error_string()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Enquire::register_match_decider()</td>
<td>This method didn't do anything, so just remove calls to it!</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Query::Query(Query::op, Query)</td>
<td>This constructor isn't useful for any currently implemented
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Query::op</span></tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>The Quartz backend</td>
<td>Use the Flint backend instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Quartz::open()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Flint::open()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>quartzcheck</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xapian-check</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>quartzcompact</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xapian-compact</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>quartzdump</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xapian-inspect</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>configure --enable-debug</td>
<td>configure --enable-assertions</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>configure --enable-debug=full</td>
<td>configure --enable-assertions --enable-log</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>configure --enable-debug=partial</td>
<td>configure --enable-assertions=partial</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>configure --enable-debug=profile</td>
<td>configure --enable-log=profile</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>configure --enable-debug-verbose</td>
<td>configure --enable-log</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Database::positionlist_begin()</span></tt>
throwing <tt class="docutils literal">RangeError</tt> if the
term specified doesn't index the
document specified.</td>
<td>This check is quite expensive, and often you don't care.  If you
do it's easy to check - just open a <tt class="docutils literal">TermListIterator</tt> for the
document and use <tt class="docutils literal">skip_to()</tt> to check if the term is there.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Database::positionlist_begin()</span></tt>
throwing <tt class="docutils literal">DocNotFoundError</tt> if
the document specified doesn't
exist.</td>
<td>This check is quite expensive, and often you don't care.  If you
do, it's easy to check - just call <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Database::get_document()</span></tt> with the
specified document ID.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.5</td>
<td>delve -k</td>
<td>Accepted as an undocumented alias for -V since 0.9.10 for compatibility with 0.9.9
and earlier.  Just use -V instead.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id36">Bindings</a></h2>
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<col width="6%" />
<col width="7%" />
<col width="23%" />
<col width="65%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Removed</th>
<th class="head">Language</th>
<th class="head">Feature name</th>
<th class="head">Upgrade suggestion and comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id3">[1]</a></td>
<td>Enquire::set_sort_forward()</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_docid_order()</span></tt> instead.</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_forward(true)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_docid_order(ASCENDING)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_forward(false)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_docid_order(DESCENDING)</tt></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id4">[1]</a></td>
<td>Enquire::set_sorting()</td>
<td><p class="first">Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance()</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value()</span></tt>
or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Enquire::set_sort_by_value_then_relevance()</span></tt> instead.</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1)</tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_value(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1, false) becomes ``set_sort_by_value(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(KEY, 1, true)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_value_then_relevance(KEY)</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">set_sorting(ANYTHING, 0) becomes set_sort_by_relevance()</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">set_sorting(Xapian::BAD_VALUENO,</span> ANYTHING)</tt> becomes
<tt class="docutils literal">set_sort_by_relevance()</tt></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id5">[1]</a></td>
<td>Auto::open(path)</td>
<td>Use the <tt class="docutils literal">Database(path)</tt> constructor instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id6">[1]</a></td>
<td>Auto::open(path, action)</td>
<td>Use the <tt class="docutils literal">WritableDatabase(path, action)</tt> constructor instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rsw3" id="id7">[3]</a></td>
<td>MSet::is_empty()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MSet::empty()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rsw3" id="id8">[3]</a></td>
<td>ESet::is_empty()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ESet::empty()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rsw3" id="id9">[3]</a></td>
<td>RSet::is_empty()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">RSet::empty()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rsw3" id="id10">[3]</a></td>
<td>Query::is_empty()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Query::empty()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id11">[1]</a></td>
<td>Document::add_term_nopos()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Document::add_term()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>CSharp</td>
<td>ExpandDecider::Apply()</td>
<td>Return type is now <tt class="docutils literal">bool</tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">int</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>CSharp</td>
<td>MatchDecider::Apply()</td>
<td>Return type is now <tt class="docutils literal">bool</tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">int</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.0.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id12">[1]</a></td>
<td>Stem::stem_word(word)</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Stem::operator()(word)</span></tt> instead. <a class="footnote-reference" href="#callable" id="id13">[4]</a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id14">[1]</a></td>
<td>xapian_version_string()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">version_string()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id15">[1]</a></td>
<td>xapian_major_version()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">major_version()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id16">[1]</a></td>
<td>xapian_minor_version()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">minor_version()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id17">[1]</a></td>
<td>xapian_revision()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal">revision()</tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id18">[1]</a></td>
<td>ESetIterator::get_termname()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ESetIterator::get_term()</span></tt> instead.  This change is intended to
bring the ESet iterators in line with other term iterators, which all
support <tt class="docutils literal">get_term()</tt> instead of <tt class="docutils literal">get_termname()</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>get_description()</td>
<td>All <tt class="docutils literal">get_description()</tt> methods have been renamed to <tt class="docutils literal">__str__()</tt>,
so the normal python <tt class="docutils literal">str()</tt> function can be used.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>MSetItem.get_*()</td>
<td>All these methods are deprecated, in favour of properties.
To convert, just change <tt class="docutils literal">msetitem.get_FOO()</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">msetitem.FOO</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>Enquire.get_matching_terms</td>
<td>Replaced by <tt class="docutils literal">Enquire.matching_terms</tt>, for consistency with
rest of Python API.  Note: an <tt class="docutils literal">Enquire.get_matching_terms</tt> method existed in
releases up-to and including 1.2.4, but this was actually an old implementation
which only accepted a MSetIterator as a parameter, and would have failed with
code written expecting the version in 1.0.0.  It was fully removed after
release 1.2.4.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rswg" id="id19">[1]</a></td>
<td>Error::get_errno()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Error::get_error_string()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.1.0</td>
<td>SWIG
<a class="footnote-reference" href="#rsw2" id="id20">[2]</a></td>
<td>MSet::get_document_id()</td>
<td>Use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MSet::get_docid()</span></tt> instead.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.2.0</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>mset[i][xapian.MSET_DID] etc</td>
<td>This was inadvertently removed in 1.2.0, but not noticed until 1.2.5, by which
point it no longer seemed worthwhile to reinstate it.  Please use the property
API instead, e.g. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mset[i].docid</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mset[i].weight</span></tt>, etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>1.2.5</td>
<td>Python</td>
<td>if idx in mset</td>
<td>This was nominally implemented, but never actually worked.  Since nobody seems
to have noticed in 3.5 years, we just removed it.  If you have uses (which were
presumably never called), you can replace them with:
<tt class="docutils literal">if idx &gt;= 0 and idx &lt; len(mset)</tt></td>
</tr>
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