Deprecation: #92598 - Workspace-related methods "fixVersioningPid"

Description

The two workspace-related methods

• TYPO3\CMS\Core\Domain\Repository\PageRepository->fixVersioningPid()
• TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Utility\BackendUtility::fixVersioningPid()

have been marked as deprecated, as they are not needed in TYPO3 v11 anymore.

Both methods served to replace the value of a record's "pid" of a live version with the actual "pid" value of a versioned record.

Since TYPO3 v11 this is only different for versioned records which have been moved, where the live record has e.g. a PID value of 13 but in a workspace the record was moved to PID 20. In order to correctly resolve e.g. a page path or a rootline, these methods helped to modify the "pid" value.

However, as TYPO3 v11 does not use Move Placeholders anymore, and move pointers (records moved in a workspace) already contain the newly moved location as "pid" value, the extra database call is not needed.

Impact

Calling these methods in custom PHP code will trigger a PHP E_USER_DEPRECATED error.

Affected Installations

TYPO3 installations with custom PHP code respecting versioned records with these methods. This usually does not apply to Extbase-related extensions or extensions that do not consider moved records in Workspaces (yet).

Migration

The API methods:

• TYPO3\CMS\Core\Domain\Repository\PageRepository->versionOL()
• TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Utility\BackendUtility::workspaceOL()
• TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Utility\BackendUtility::getRecordWSOL()

now override the "pid" value of the moved records directly, and keep the live "pid" value in "_ORIG_pid".

It is highly recommended to use these methods.

If it is needed to manually find the online PID for a versioned record, it is recommended to just fetch the live record (stored in t3ver_oid) via typical Doctrine-based database queries and load the PID value from there, or use the overlay methods as described to get both values.