doc, tls: mark parseCertString() as deprecated

XadillaX · jasnell · commit b09eeb4a3d97 · 2017-09-20T13:23:16.000-07:00
`tls.parseCertString()` was made public by mistack. So mark it as deprecated. PR-URL: #14245 Refs: #14193 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
diff --git a/doc/api/deprecations.md b/doc/api/deprecations.md
@@ -630,6 +630,29 @@ Type: Runtime
 
 *Note*: change was made while `async_hooks` was an experimental API.
 
+<a id="DEP0076"></a>
+### DEP0076: tls.parseCertString()
+
+Type: Documentation-only
+
+`tls.parseCertString()` is a trivial parsing helper that was made public by
+mistake. This function can usually be replaced with:
+
+```js
+const querystring = require('querystring');
+querystring.parse(str, '\n', '=');
+```
+
+*Note*: This function is not completely equivalent to `querystring.parse()`. One
+difference is that `querystring.parse()` does url encoding:
+
+```sh
+> querystring.parse('%E5%A5%BD=1', '\n', '=');
+{ '&#22909;': '1' }
+> tls.parseCertString('%E5%A5%BD=1');
+{ '%E5%A5%BD': '1' }
+```
+
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