Deprecated vSphere Client extension points (vise.relateditems.specs)

[jvitorino]

I was wondering what the plan is for the deprecated extension points.  Is there an release that will no longer support these extension points?   Most relevant to our current Flex->HTML migration is the vise.relateditems.specs extension point.  We have added the extension to our plugin.xml and it seems to be working fine on 6.5 and 6.7, however since we haven't migrated all of our deprecated extensions over to HTML yet, I wanted to check if these would still work in the next release.

Thank you,

Jesse

[_vladi_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Jesse,

The deprecation of APIs is our heads-up to you about our intention to stop supporting them in a future release. Decision on what release we will actually do it in is taken for each API separately based on feedback from partners, usage of the API, vSphere Client security and performance considerations, product architecture, rate of partner migration to new APIs and recommendations, etc.

As the traditional API lifecycle goes it is certain that this cannot happen on a patch or update release.

At the moment we have not removed any deprecated extension points from the vSphere Client but it is still unclear if we are going to remove any in the next major vSphere release.

Cheers,

Vladi