Deprecated API

Contents

• Deprecated Packages
• Deprecated Interfaces
• Deprecated Classes
• Deprecated Fields
• Deprecated Methods
• Deprecated Enum Constants

Deprecated Packages

Package and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate as of 3.6, use the commons-text translate package instead

Deprecated Interfaces

Interface and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.FormatFactory as of 3.6, use commons-text FormatFactory instead

Deprecated Classes

Class and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.AggregateTranslator as of 3.6, use commons-text AggregateTranslator instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.CharEncoding Java 7 introduced StandardCharsets, which defines these constants as Charset objects. Use Charset.name() to get the string values provided in this class. This class will be removed in a future release.
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.CharSequenceTranslator as of 3.6, use commons-text CharSequenceTranslator instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.CodePointTranslator as of 3.6, use commons-text CharSequenceTranslator instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.CompositeFormat as of 3.6, use commons-text CompositeFormat instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.EntityArrays as of 3.6, use commons-text EntityArrays instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.ExtendedMessageFormat as of 3.6, use commons-text ExtendedMessageFormat instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.FormattableUtils as of 3.6, use commons-text FormattableUtils instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.JavaUnicodeEscaper as of 3.6, use commons-text UnicodeEscaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.LookupTranslator as of 3.6, use commons-text LookupTranslator instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.NumericEntityEscaper as of 3.6, use commons-text NumericEntityEscaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.NumericEntityUnescaper as of 3.6, use commons-text NumericEntityUnescaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.OctalUnescaper as of 3.6, use commons-text OctalUnescaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.StrBuilder as of 3.6, use commons-text TextStringBuilder instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils as of 3.6, use commons-text StringEscapeUtils instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.StrLookup as of 3.6, use commons-text StringLookupFactory instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.StrMatcher as of 3.6, use commons-text StringMatcherFactory instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.StrSubstitutor as of 3.6, use commons-text StringSubstitutor instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.StrTokenizer as of 3.6, use commons-text StringTokenizer instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.UnicodeEscaper as of 3.6, use commons-text UnicodeEscaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.UnicodeUnescaper as of 3.6, use commons-text UnicodeUnescaper instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.UnicodeUnpairedSurrogateRemover as of 3.6, use commons-text UnicodeUnpairedSurrogateRemover instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils as of 3.6, use commons-text WordUtils instead

Deprecated Fields

Field and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_XML use StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_XML10 or StringEscapeUtils.ESCAPE_XML11 instead.
org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.FILE_SEPARATOR Use File.separator, since it is guaranteed to be a string containing a single character and it does not require a privilege check.
org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_1_9 As of release 3.5, replaced by SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_9
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATE_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_DATE_FORMAT will be replaced by ISO_8601_EXTENDED_DATE_FORMAT.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATE_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_DATE_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT will be removed.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATETIME_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_DATETIME_FORMAT will be replaced by ISO_8601_EXTENDED_DATETIME_FORMAT.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT will be replaced by ISO_8601_EXTENDED_DATETIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_TIME_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_TIME_FORMAT will be removed.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_TIME_NO_T_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_TIME_NO_T_FORMAT will be replaced by ISO_8601_EXTENDED_TIME_FORMAT.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_TIME_NO_T_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_TIME_NO_T_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT will be replaced by ISO_8601_EXTENDED_TIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateFormatUtils.ISO_TIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT - as of 4.0, ISO_TIME_TIME_ZONE_FORMAT will be removed.
org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR Use System.lineSeparator instead, since it does not require a privilege check.
org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.PATH_SEPARATOR Use File.pathSeparator, since it is guaranteed to be a string containing a single character and it does not require a privilege check.

Deprecated Methods

Method and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(boolean[], int, boolean) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, boolean[], boolean...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(byte[], int, byte) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, byte[], byte...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(char[], int, char) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, char[], char...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(double[], int, double) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, double[], double...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(float[], int, float) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, float[], float...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(int[], int, int) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, int[], int...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(long[], int, long) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, long[], long...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(short[], int, short) this method has been superseded by ArrayUtils.insert(int, short[], short...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.add(T[], int, T) this method has been superseded by insert(int, T[], T...) and may be removed in a future release. Please note the handling of null input arrays differs in the new method: inserting X into a null array results in null not X.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDatePrinter.applyRules(Calendar, StringBuffer) use FastDatePrinter.format(Calendar) or FastDatePrinter.format(Calendar, Appendable)
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat.applyRules(Calendar, StringBuffer) Use FastDateFormat.format(Calendar, Appendable)
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.chomp(String, String) This feature will be removed in Lang 4.0, use StringUtils.removeEnd(String, String) instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.equals(Object, Object) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.equals(Object, Object) in Java 7 and will be removed from future releases.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(String) use StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml10(java.lang.String) or StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml11(java.lang.String) instead.
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DatePrinter.format(Calendar, StringBuffer) Use {DatePrinter.format(Calendar, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat.format(Calendar, StringBuffer) Use {FastDateFormat.format(Calendar, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DatePrinter.format(Date, StringBuffer) Use {DatePrinter.format(Date, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat.format(Date, StringBuffer) Use {FastDateFormat.format(Date, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DatePrinter.format(long, StringBuffer) Use {DatePrinter.format(long, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDateFormat.format(long, StringBuffer) Use {FastDateFormat.format(long, Appendable).
org.apache.commons.lang3.time.FastDatePrinter.format(Object, StringBuffer, FieldPosition) Use {FastDatePrinter.format(Date), {FastDatePrinter.format(Calendar), {FastDatePrinter.format(long), or {FastDatePrinter.format(Object)
org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils.getCause(Throwable) This feature will be removed in Lang 4.0, use Throwable.getCause() instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils.getCause(Throwable, String[]) This feature will be removed in Lang 4.0, use Throwable.getCause() instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils.getDefaultCauseMethodNames() This feature will be removed in Lang 4.0
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getFuzzyDistance(CharSequence, CharSequence, Locale) as of 3.6, use commons-text FuzzyScore instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getJaroWinklerDistance(CharSequence, CharSequence) as of 3.6, use commons-text JaroWinklerDistance instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance(CharSequence, CharSequence) as of 3.6, use commons-text LevenshteinDistance instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance(CharSequence, CharSequence, int) as of 3.6, use commons-text LevenshteinDistance instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.hashCode(Object) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.hashCode(Object) in Java 7 and will be removed in future releases
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.hashCodeMulti(Object...) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.hash(Object...) in Java 7 and will be removed in future releases.
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.identityToString(StrBuilder, Object) as of 3.6, because StrBuilder was moved to commons-text, use one of the other identityToString methods instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils.isEquals(Object, Object) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.deepEquals(Object, Object) and will be removed from future releases.
org.apache.commons.lang3.math.NumberUtils.isNumber(String) This feature will be removed in Lang 4.0, use NumberUtils.isCreatable(String) instead
org.apache.commons.lang3.CharEncoding.isSupported(String) Please use Charset.isSupported(String) instead, although be aware that null values are not accepted by that method and an IllegalCharsetNameException may be thrown.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.removeAll(String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.removeFirst(String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.removePattern(String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.replaceAll(String, String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.replaceFirst(String, String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.replacePattern(String, String, String) Moved to RegExUtils.
org.apache.commons.lang3.CharUtils.toCharacterObject(char) Java 5 introduced Character.valueOf(char) which caches chars 0 through 127.
org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.toString(byte[], String) use StringUtils.toEncodedString(byte[], Charset) instead of String constants in your code
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.toString(Object) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.toString(Object) in Java 7 and will be removed in future releases. Note however that said method will return "null" for null references, while this method returns an empty String. To preserve behavior use java.util.Objects.toString(myObject, "")
org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils.toString(Object, String) this method has been replaced by java.util.Objects.toString(Object, String) in Java 7 and will be removed in future releases.

Deprecated Enum Constants

Enum Constant and Description
org.apache.commons.lang3.JavaVersion.JAVA_1_9 As of release 3.5, replaced by JavaVersion.JAVA_9