[Route] Handle deprecation Annotation on Action method.

[Blackskyliner]

I have an situation where I got an big application and I want to refactor some Actions and thus create new ones and remove older ones. Now I would also need to somehow check where did I use all those routes created by that action. This gets really cumbersome when doing large refactoring or removing of features from big projects.

So my suggestion would be to also check if an Action, a route points to, got an @deprecated annotated. If so then adding that to the deprecation list (maybe also for the global inspection of a project, this would be awesome). It would then (maybe) also be possible then to highlight it in the deprecated color (in my settings a red background, if something deprecated is called).

Is this feasible to get this feature implemented somehow?

[Haehnchen]

@deprecated for route names resolves on controller key would be possible. does this help in your case?

[Blackskyliner]

Do you have an example where I would have to annotate the deprecated?

My current case it like this:

/**
 * Class SomeController
 */
class SomeController
{
    /**
     * Some Description...
     *
     * @Route("/some/path/to/action", name="some_controller_action")
     * @deprecated
     */
    public function someAction()
    {
    }
}

So everywhere where I use:

$router->generate('some_controller_action');

{{ url('some_controller_action') }}

I'd like to have the 'some_controller_action' within $router->generate, marked as deprecated.
How would it be with the case you stated above?