Deprecation: #86225 - Classes BaseScriptClass and AbstractFunctionModule

Description

The two classes \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Module\BaseScriptClass, also known as t3lib_SCbase and \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Module\AbstractFunctionModule, also known as t3lib_extobjbase have been marked as deprecated and will be removed in TYPO3 v10.

Impact

Using one of the classes will trigger a E_USER_DEPRECATED error.

Affected Installations

The BaseScriptClass has been commonly extended by extensions that add own backend modules and did not rely on extbase for that. There is nothing wrong with not using extbase, but most of the methods from BaseScriptClass were unused by own extensions and hard to understand, too.

Class AbstractFunctionModule has been extended by some extensions that add own sub modules to the Page -> Info or the Page -> Template view.

The extension scanner will find possible usages.

Migration

A migration is often relatively simple: Extensions that extend BaseScriptClass should verify which methods and properties are actually used from the parent class. The most simple solution is to just copy those over to the own class and remove the inheritance. It is good practice to at least change their visibility from public to protected at the same time if possible.

Extensions that extend AbstractFunctionModule should do the same. The main info and tstemplate controllers typically only call the methods init() and main() of those classes as entry points, those need to be kept public.