Since Magento 2.1, Cart has a @deprecated tag. Nevertheless, it is still used by Magento itself to store products when shopping. Is the deprecation intended, and if so, and what should we use instead?
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Welcome to Magento.SE! Great question! You may think to revise the title a bit so it doesn't ask for subjective answer. For instance, "Should I still use?" is probably better than "why was it deprecated"– philwinkleCommented Jun 24, 2016 at 14:52
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Thanks for your reply, philwinkle! However, @deprecated already implies that it should not be use anymore. I just wanted to know what it is replaced by, and because it is still actively used by Magento, I have a small suspicion that the class was deprecated by mistake. :)– Patrick van BergenCommented Jun 24, 2016 at 15:02
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Outside of a core team member the answer cannot be canonically answered. But I think that as it stands it is a perfectly valid question.– philwinkleCommented Jun 24, 2016 at 15:32
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for the record. deprecation removed in github.com/magento/magento2/pull/11070– M.ElwanCommented Mar 31, 2018 at 21:51
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My guess is that the Magento team is planning to implement service contracts for this class.
However as of 2.1 if you check the app/code/Magento/Checkout/Api folder there's no class (yet) that implements such service contract.
I assume it'll happen at some point and the Magento team flagged that model to be deprecated in the future. However as I said and as you said, it is still used in the software so you can still keep using it for now.
I reckon this @deprecated tag is a similar flag as the one for the load() method from Magento\Framework\Model\AbstractMode
Same goes for the XML <action> tag which is deprecated but still is the only option in some cases: http://goo.gl/laVP35 and is still widely used in 2.1: https://github.com/magento/magento2/search?l=xml&q=action&utf8=%E2%9C%93
answered Jun 24, 2016 at 15:21
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The commit that deprecated the cart model is c4e9a77403655646a18d4277de96429c86bd34fa with the message
MAGETWO-51558: Mark Checkout Cart model as deprecated
This doesn't tell much, especially since this is the only commit that references the internal ticket number "MAGETWO-51558"
Since \Magento\Checkout\Api still does not contain any new service contracts and \Magento\Quote\Api\CartItemRepositoryInterface cannot replace the cart model either, I agree with your suspicion that it has been deprecated too early.
Of course, a final answer can only be given by a Magento employee.
answered Jun 24, 2016 at 15:19
