I would like to mark a property (for example, qux below) as deprecated:

/**
 @typedef {object} Foo
 @property {string} bar
 @property {symbol} qux - How to deprecate it?
 @deprecated @property {symbol} qux2 - Doesn't work
 @property {symbol} qux3 @deprecated - This marks the whole of Foo as deprecated 
 */

I should mention, I'd like to do this in a JSDoc ment, not using TypeScript.

I would like to mark a property (for example, qux below) as deprecated:

/**
 @typedef {object} Foo
 @property {string} bar
 @property {symbol} qux - How to deprecate it?
 @deprecated @property {symbol} qux2 - Doesn't work
 @property {symbol} qux3 @deprecated - This marks the whole of Foo as deprecated 
 */

I should mention, I'd like to do this in a JSDoc ment, not using TypeScript.

• javascript
• jsdoc
• tsdoc

2 Answers 2

According to Issue#131 over at tsdoc, you can actually use @deprecated on properties, you just have to set it inside the object (works with JS as well).

For e.g.:

/**
 * Explain the interface ...
 */
export interface test {
    /**
     * Foo property
     */
    Foo: string;
    /**
     * @deprecated Use {@link test.qux2} instead.
     */
    qux: string;
    /**
     * qux2 property
     */
    qux2: string;
}

Results in:

In classes for e.g.:

/**
 * Class description ...
 */
class User {
    /**
     * Holds user's name
     */
    name = "";
    /**
     * Holds user's surname
     */
    surname = "";
    /**
     * @deprecated Holds user height
     */
    height = 0;

    /**
     * constructor
     */

    constructor(name, surname) {
        this.name = name;
        this.surname = surname;
    }
}

const me = new User("Arslan", "Sohail Bano");

Results:

When using the deprecated property.

As far as i know the @deprecated tag can be only used for deprecating anything else than an entire symbol

Following the jsdoc docs this is the only way you can use @deprecated

/**
 * @deprecated since version 2.0.0
 */
function old() {

}

https://jsdoc.app/tags-deprecated.html