From f26a91e314c7db8e42f791d571cccb486141626f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Frank=20J=2E=20G=C3=B3mez?= <frank@ginkgostreet.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 08:42:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] CRM-19784: Deprecated CRM_Utils_Geocode::getProviderClass().

---
 CRM/Utils/Geocode.php | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CRM/Utils/Geocode.php b/CRM/Utils/Geocode.php
index 76cd832951..2badc24ccd 100644
--- a/CRM/Utils/Geocode.php
+++ b/CRM/Utils/Geocode.php
@@ -37,10 +37,21 @@
 class CRM_Utils_Geocode {
 
   /**
+   * @deprecated
+   *
+   * @todo Remove this method. In case people are calling this downstream (which
+   *   is unsupported usage), we'll deprecate it for a few releases before
+   *   removing it altogether.
+   *
    * @return string|''
    *   Class name, or empty.
    */
   public static function getProviderClass() {
+    Civi::log()->warning(
+      'CRM_Utils_Geocode is deprecated and will be removed from core soon, use CRM_Utils_GeocodeProvider::getUsableClassName()',
+      ['civi.tag' => 'deprecated']
+    );
+
     $settings = Civi::settings();
     if ($settings->get('geoProvider')) {
       return 'CRM_Utils_Geocode_' . $settings->get('geoProvider');
-- 
2.25.1