Several classes have a "selectFields()" static method to tell callers
which fields to select from the database. With the recent comment table
change and the upcoming actor table change, this pattern has become too
simplistic as a SELECT will need to join several tables to be able to
retrieve all the needed fields.
Thus, we deprecate the selectFields() methods in favor of getQueryInfo()
methods that return tables and join conditions in addition to the
fields.
Change-Id: Idcfd15568489d9f03a7ba4460e96610d33bc4089
This is more consistent with LoadBalancer, modern, and inclusive
of master/master mysql, NDB cluster, and MariaDB galera cluster.
The old constant is an alias now.
Change-Id: I0b37299ecb439cc446ffbe8c341365d1eef45849
Anything that wants to be "central" right now has to depend on
CentralAuth, and then either can't work without CentralAuth or has to
branch all over the place based on whether CentralAuth is present. Most
of the time all it really needs is a mapping from local users to central
user IDs and back or the ability to query whether the local user is
attached on some other wiki, so let's make an interface for that in
core.
See I52aa0460 for an example implementation (CentralAuth), and Ibd192e29
for an example use (OAuth).
Bug: T111302
Change-Id: I49568358ec35fdfd0b9e53e441adabded5c7b80f
