From a91c19837f5ce579ce2a5bf68ddee30cfaebe034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris McDonough Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:19:23 -0400 Subject: note deprecation --- docs/narr/threadlocals.rst | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/narr/threadlocals.rst b/docs/narr/threadlocals.rst index a90ee4905..afe56de3e 100644 --- a/docs/narr/threadlocals.rst +++ b/docs/narr/threadlocals.rst @@ -29,17 +29,16 @@ of a thread local or a global is usually just a way to avoid passing some value around between functions, which is itself usually a very bad idea, at least if code readability counts as an important concern. -For historical reasons, however, thread local variables are indeed -consulted by various :app:`Pyramid` API functions. For example, -the implementation of the :mod:`pyramid.security` function named -:func:`~pyramid.security.authenticated_userid` retrieves the thread -local :term:`application registry` as a matter of course to find an +For historical reasons, however, thread local variables are indeed consulted by +various :app:`Pyramid` API functions. For example, the implementation of the +:mod:`pyramid.security` function named +:func:`~pyramid.security.authenticated_userid` (deprecated as of 1.5) retrieves +the thread local :term:`application registry` as a matter of course to find an :term:`authentication policy`. It uses the -:func:`pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_registry` function to -retrieve the application registry, from which it looks up the -authentication policy; it then uses the authentication policy to -retrieve the authenticated user id. This is how :app:`Pyramid` -allows arbitrary authentication policies to be "plugged in". +:func:`pyramid.threadlocal.get_current_registry` function to retrieve the +application registry, from which it looks up the authentication policy; it then +uses the authentication policy to retrieve the authenticated user id. This is +how :app:`Pyramid` allows arbitrary authentication policies to be "plugged in". When they need to do so, :app:`Pyramid` internals use two API functions to retrieve the :term:`request` and :term:`application -- cgit v1.2.3