Merge pull request #247 from PuerkitoBio/wip-deprecate

Deprecate NewDocument and NewDocumentFromResponse. Closes #173 .

Author: mna

README.md

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Please note that because of the net/html dependency, goquery requires Go1.1+.
 
 **Note that goquery's API is now stable, and will not break.**
 
+*    **2018-03-24 (v1.4.0)** : Deprecate `NewDocument(url)` and `NewDocumentFromResponse(response)`.
 *    **2018-01-28 (v1.3.0)** : Add `ToEnd` constant to `Slice` until the end of the selection (thanks to @davidjwilkins for raising the issue).
 *    **2018-01-11 (v1.2.0)** : Add `AddBack*` and deprecate `AndSelf` (thanks to @davidjwilkins).
 *    **2017-02-12 (v1.1.0)** : Add `SetHtml` and `SetText` (thanks to @glebtv).

type.go

@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ func NewDocumentFromNode(root *html.Node) *Document {
 // NewDocument is a Document constructor that takes a string URL as argument.
 // It loads the specified document, parses it, and stores the root Document
 // node, ready to be manipulated.
+//
+// Deprecated: Use the net/http standard library package to make the request
+// and validate the response before calling goquery.NewDocumentFromReader
+// with the response's body.
 func NewDocument(url string) (*Document, error) {
 	// Load the URL
 	res, e := http.Get(url)
@@ -40,10 +44,10 @@ func NewDocument(url string) (*Document, error) {
 	return NewDocumentFromResponse(res)
 }
 
-// NewDocumentFromReader returns a Document from a generic reader.
+// NewDocumentFromReader returns a Document from an io.Reader.
 // It returns an error as second value if the reader's data cannot be parsed
-// as html. It does *not* check if the reader is also an io.Closer, so the
-// provided reader is never closed by this call, it is the responsibility
+// as html. It does not check if the reader is also an io.Closer, the
+// provided reader is never closed by this call. It is the responsibility
 // of the caller to close it if required.
 func NewDocumentFromReader(r io.Reader) (*Document, error) {
 	root, e := html.Parse(r)
@@ -56,6 +60,8 @@ func NewDocumentFromReader(r io.Reader) (*Document, error) {
 // NewDocumentFromResponse is another Document constructor that takes an http response as argument.
 // It loads the specified response's document, parses it, and stores the root Document
 // node, ready to be manipulated. The response's body is closed on return.
+//
+// Deprecated: Use goquery.NewDocumentFromReader with the response's body.
 func NewDocumentFromResponse(res *http.Response) (*Document, error) {
 	if res == nil {
 		return nil, errors.New("Response is nil")