[openstack-dev] [oslo][glance][all] Removing deprecated functions from oslo_utils.timeutils

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 14:27:47 UTC 2015


Brant,

That's a great pattern for everyone to follow.

Thanks!
Dims

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Brant Knudson <blk at acm.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/10/2015 01:56 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>> > Shouldn't be to hard (although it's probably not on each oslo project,
>> > but on the consumers projects).
>> >
>> > The warnings module can turn warnings into raised exceptions with a
>> > simple command line switch btw...
>> >
>> > For example:
>> >
>> > $ python -Wonce
>> > Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
>> > [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
>> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>>> import warnings
>> >>>> warnings.warn("I am not supposed to be used", DeprecationWarning)
>> > __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: I am not supposed to be used
>> >
>> > $ python -Werror
>> > Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
>> > [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
>> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>>> import warnings
>> >>>> warnings.warn("I am not supposed to be used", DeprecationWarning)
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> > DeprecationWarning: I am not supposed to be used
>> >
>> > https://docs.python.org/2/library/warnings.html#the-warnings-filter
>> >
>> > Turn that CLI switch from off to on and I'm pretty sure usage of
>> > deprecated things will become pretty evident real quick ;)
>>
>> It needs to be more targetted than that. There is a long standing
>> warning between paste and pkg_resources that would hard stop everyone.
>>
>> But, yes, the idea of being able to run unit tests with fatal
>> deprecations of oslo easily is what I think would be useful.
>>
>>         -Sean
>>
>
> In keystone we set a warnings filter for the unit tests so that if keystone
> calls any deprecated function it'll raise[1]. So when the oslo timeutils
> functions were deprecated it broke keystone gate and we fixed it. It would
> be nicer to have a non-voting gate job to serve as a warning instead, but
> it's only happened a couple of times where this caused keystone to be
> blocked for the day that it took to get the fix in. Anyways, it would be
> easy enough for us to have this enabled/disabled via an environment variable
> and create a tox job.
>
> If we had a non-voting warning job it could also run oslo libs from master
> rather than released.
>
> [1]
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/keystone/tree/keystone/tests/unit/core.py?id=4f8c4a7a10d85080d6db9b30ae1759d45a38a32c#n460
>
> - Brant
>
>
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