Deprecation: #84274 - Protected methods and properties in LoginController 

See forge#84274

Description 

This file is about third party usage (consumer that call the class as well as signals or hooks depending on it) of \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Controller\LoginController .

All methods not used as entry points by \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Http\RouteDispatcher will be removed or set to protected in v10 and throw deprecation warnings if used from a third party:

  • [not scanned] main()
  • makeInterfaceSelectorBox()

Impact 

Calling above method on an instance of LoginController will throw a deprecation warning in v9 and a PHP fatal in v10.

Affected Installations 

The extension scanner will find all usages, but may also find some false positives. In general all extensions that set properties or call methods except formAction() are affected.

Migration 

In general, extensions should not instantiate and re-use controllers of the core. Existing usages should be rewritten to be free of calls like these.