context: reintroduce `ctx.descendant` as deprecated
Reintroduce `ctx.descendant` to help extensions authors update their
extensions in order to use the new API.
obsolete: explode if metadata contains invalid UTF-8 sequence (API)
The current metadata API can be a source of bugs since it forces callers to
process encoding conversion by themselves. So let's make it reject bad data
as a last ditch. I assume there's no metadata field which is supposed to store
arbitrary BLOB like transplant_source.
obsolete: store user name and note in UTF-8 (
issue5754) (BC)
Before, user names were stored in local encoding and transferred across
repositories, which made it impossible to restore non-ASCII user names on
different platforms. This patch fixes new markers to be encoded in UTF-8
and decoded back to local encoding when displaying. Existing markers are
unfixable so they may result in mojibake.
I don't like the API that requires metadata dict to be UTF-8 encoded, which
is a source of bugs, but there's no abstraction layer to process the encoding
thingy efficiently. So we apply the same rule as extras dict to obsstore
metadata.