SERVER-121635 Discourage use of ByteArrayDeprecated (#50638)

GitOrigin-RevId: 2c8e3307a71a49a3695e21cc5d91e515447089da
2026-03-27 15:42:35 -04:00 · 2026-03-27 15:42:35 -04:00 · 62d4aa1239
commit 62d4aa1239
parent 8098b2fbf1
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h
+++ b/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h
@ -663,7 +663,10 @@ public:
        return value() + 5;
    }
    /**
-     * Get binary data.  Element must be of type BinData. Handles type 2
+     * Get binary data.  Element must be of type BinData.
+     *
+     * Handles ByteArrayDeprecated (subtype 2) for legacy support. New callers should never
+     * use this subtype.
     */
    const char* binDataClean(int& len) const {
        // BinData: <int len> <byte subtype> <byte[len] data>