5 Deprecated Features

Deprecated features are features which Oracle plans to desupport or remove in a future release of Oracle APEX. If a feature is related to application metadata or an API, existing applications can still use the feature, but Oracle strongly recommends that developers start to modify their applications as described in this section. Use APEX Advisor to scan existing applications for deprecated attributes.

• Quick SQL Deprecated Functionality
  
• JSON Application Export Deprecated
  

5.1 Quick SQL Deprecated Functionality

Deprecated Settings

The following Quick SQL settings are deprecated:

• Data Language (#language:"DE"): No longer generates sample data into different languages (German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish).
• Tags Framework (#tags:true): No longer generates tag framework objects (table, trigger, sync procedure).
• On Delete (#ondelete:"cascade"): No longer supports system-wide ondelete settings. Handle these settings through the new /cascade column directive.
• Longer Varchar2 (#longVC:true): No longer supports artificially shortening or increasing VARCHAR2 size.
• Tenant ID (#tenantID:true): No longer supported.

Deprecated Directives

The following Quick SQL directives are deprecated:

• /select: No longer generates a SQL SELECT statement after generating data for each table.

5.2 JSON Application Export Deprecated

The JSON application export option is deprecated, and will be removed in the next release.