go-ethereum/cmd/utils/flags_legacy.go

// Copyright 2020 The go-ethereum Authors
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package utils

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/eth/ethconfig"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/internal/flags"
	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
)

var ShowDeprecated = &cli.Command{
	Action:      showDeprecated,
	Name:        "show-deprecated-flags",
	Usage:       "Show flags that have been deprecated",
	ArgsUsage:   " ",
	Description: "Show flags that have been deprecated and will soon be removed",
}

var DeprecatedFlags = []cli.Flag{
	NoUSBFlag,
	LegacyWhitelistFlag,
	CacheTrieJournalFlag,
	CacheTrieRejournalFlag,
	LegacyDiscoveryV5Flag,
	TxLookupLimitFlag,
}

var (
	// Deprecated May 2020, shown in aliased flags section
	NoUSBFlag = &cli.BoolFlag{
		Name:     "nousb",
		Usage:    "Disables monitoring for and managing USB hardware wallets (deprecated)",
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
	// Deprecated March 2022
	LegacyWhitelistFlag = &cli.StringFlag{
		Name:     "whitelist",
		Usage:    "Comma separated block number-to-hash mappings to enforce (<number>=<hash>) (deprecated in favor of --eth.requiredblocks)",
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
	// Deprecated July 2023
	CacheTrieJournalFlag = &cli.StringFlag{
		Name:     "cache.trie.journal",
		Usage:    "Disk journal directory for trie cache to survive node restarts",
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
	CacheTrieRejournalFlag = &cli.DurationFlag{
		Name:     "cache.trie.rejournal",
		Usage:    "Time interval to regenerate the trie cache journal",
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
	LegacyDiscoveryV5Flag = &cli.BoolFlag{
		Name:     "v5disc",
		Usage:    "Enables the experimental RLPx V5 (Topic Discovery) mechanism (deprecated, use --discv5 instead)",
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
	// Deprecated August 2023
	TxLookupLimitFlag = &cli.Uint64Flag{
		Name:     "txlookuplimit",
		Usage:    "Number of recent blocks to maintain transactions index for (default = about one year, 0 = entire chain) (deprecated, use history.transactions instead)",
		Value:    ethconfig.Defaults.TransactionHistory,
		Category: flags.DeprecatedCategory,
	}
)

// showDeprecated displays deprecated flags that will be soon removed from the codebase.
func showDeprecated(*cli.Context) error {
	fmt.Println("--------------------------------------------------------------------")
	fmt.Println("The following flags are deprecated and will be removed in the future!")
	fmt.Println("--------------------------------------------------------------------")
	fmt.Println()
	for _, flag := range DeprecatedFlags {
		fmt.Println(flag.String())
	}
	fmt.Println()
	return nil
}