Deprecate ueJql

src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/announcement/AnnouncementMojo.java

@@ -208,11 +208,10 @@ public class AnnouncementMojo extends AbstractAnnouncementMojo {
     private String templateEncoding;
 
     /**
-     * Use the JIRA query language instead of the JIRA query based on HTTP parameters. From JIRA 5.1 and up only JQL is
-     * supported. JIRA 4.4 supports both JQL and URL parameter based queries. From 5.1.1 this is obsolete, since REST
-     * queries only use JQL.
+     * Obsolete, since REST queries always use JQL.
      *
      * @since 2.10
+     * @deprecated ignored; remove from your configs
      */
     @Parameter(property = "changes.useJql", defaultValue = "false")
     private boolean useJql;
@@ -725,8 +724,6 @@ protected List<Release> getJiraReleases() throws MojoExecutionException {
             jiraDownloader.setJiraPassword(jiraPassword);
         }
 
-        jiraDownloader.setUseJql(useJql);
-
         jiraDownloader.setWebUser(webUser);
 
         jiraDownloader.setWebPassword(webPassword);

src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/jira/AbstractJiraDownloader.java

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 import org.apache.maven.settings.Settings;
 
 /**
- * Abstract API, more or less, to retrieving issue information from JIRA. Intended to have subclasses for the old (RSS)
- * and new (REST) ways of doing things.
+ * Abstract API, more or less, to retrieve issue information from JIRA. Has a subclass for
+ * new (REST) ways of doing things.
  *
  * @author [email protected]
  * @author [email protected]
@@ -91,12 +91,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractJiraDownloader {
     /** The maven settings. */
     protected Settings settings;
 
-    /**
-     * Use JQL, JIRA query language, instead of URL parameter based queries. Note that this is down here to make it
-     * easier for the mojo to deal with both new and old flavors.
-     */
-    protected boolean useJql;
-
     /** Filter the JIRA query based on the current version */
     protected boolean onlyCurrentVersion;
 
@@ -337,14 +331,6 @@ public void setSettings(Settings settings) {
         this.settings = settings;
     }
 
-    public boolean isUseJql() {
-        return useJql;
-    }
-
-    public void setUseJql(boolean useJql) {
-        this.useJql = useJql;
-    }
-
     public boolean isOnlyCurrentVersion() {
         return onlyCurrentVersion;
     }

src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/jira/JiraReport.java

@@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ public class JiraReport extends AbstractChangesReport {
     private String columnNames;
 
     /**
-     * Use the JIRA query language instead of the JIRA query based on HTTP parameters. From JIRA 5.1 and up only JQL is
-     * supported. JIRA 4.4 supports both JQL and URL parameter based queries. From 5.1.1 this is obsolete, since REST
-     * queries only use JQL.
+     * Obsolete, since REST queries only use JQL.
      *
      * @since 2.8
+     * @deprecated ignored; delete from your config
      */
+    @Deprecated
     @Parameter(property = "changes.useJql", defaultValue = "false")
     private boolean useJql;