# Deprecations and incoming changes

This page documents current deprecations and upcoming planned changes
inside Catch2. The difference between these is that a deprecated feature
will be removed, while a planned change to a feature means that the
feature will behave differently, but will still be present. Obviously,
either of these is a breaking change, and thus will not happen until
at least the next major release.

### `ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake`

The CMake/CTest integration using `ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake` is deprecated,
as it can be replaced by `Catch.cmake` that provides the function
`catch_discover_tests` to get tests directly from a CMake target via the
command line interface instead of parsing C++ code with regular expressions.


### `CATCH_CONFIG_BAZEL_SUPPORT`

Catch2 supports writing the Bazel JUnit XML output file when it is aware
that is within a bazel testing environment. Originally there was no way
to accurately probe the environment for this information so the flag
`CATCH_CONFIG_BAZEL_SUPPORT` was added. This now deprecated. Bazel has now had a change
where it will export `BAZEL_TEST=1` for purposes like the above. Catch2
will now instead inspect the environment instead of relying on build configuration.

### `IEventLister::skipTest( TestCaseInfo const& testInfo )`

This event (including implementations in derived classes such as `ReporterBase`)
is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. It is currently
invoked for all test cases that are not going to be executed due to the test run
being aborted (when using `--abort` or `--abortx`). It is however
**NOT** invoked for test cases that are [explicitly skipped using the `SKIP`
macro](skipping-passing-failing.md#top).


### Non-const function for `TEST_CASE_METHOD`

> Deprecated in Catch2 3.7.0

Currently, the member function generated for `TEST_CASE_METHOD` is
not `const` qualified. In the future, the generated member function will
be `const` qualified, just as `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE` does.

If you are mutating the fixture instance from within the test case, and
want to keep doing so in the future, mark the mutated members as `mutable`.


### Section-only filtering with `-c/--section`

> Deprecated in Catch2 3.13.0

Currently, if you use only `-c/--section` parameters to decide which
sections to enter, the filtering ignores generators completely. In the
future, using only `-c/--section` will behave the same way as if you
specified the filters through the new `-p/--path-filter` parameter, which
means that generators are taken into account.


### Generator interfaces

#### Defaulted `UntypedGeneratorBase::isFinite()`

> Deprecated in Catch2 3.13.0

The `UntypedGeneratorBase` currently provides a default implementation
for `isFinite` that always returns `true`. This was done to keep backwards
compatibility with pre-existing generators, as infinite generators can
be diagnosed as errors in some cases.

In the future, all generators will be expected to override `isFinite`.



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