Add remove_old_entries() back to BaseCache as an alias with a DeprecationWarning

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/requests_cache/backends/base.py b/requests_cache/backends/base.py
index bca2700..1021b3d 100644
--- a/requests_cache/backends/base.py
+++ b/requests_cache/backends/base.py
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ class BaseCache:
             if response.is_expired:
                 self.delete(key)
 
+    def remove_old_entries(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        msg = 'BaseCache.remove_old_entries() is deprecated; ' 'please use CachedSession.remove_expired_responses()'
+        warnings.warn(DeprecationWarning(msg))
+        self.remove_expired_responses(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def create_key(self, request: requests.PreparedRequest, **kwargs) -> str:
         """Create a normalized cache key from a request object"""
         return create_key(request, self._ignored_parameters, self._include_get_headers, **kwargs)
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_cache.py b/tests/unit/test_cache.py
index 5515efc..e51e8d9 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_cache.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_cache.py
@@ -56,7 +56,13 @@ def test_init_backend_class():
 
 def test_import_compat():
     """Just make sure that we can still import from requests_cache.core"""
-    from requests_cache.core import CachedSession, install_cache  # noqa: F401
+    with pytest.deprecated_call():
+        from requests_cache.core import CachedSession, install_cache  # noqa: F401
+
+
+def test_method_compat(mock_session):
+    with pytest.deprecated_call():
+        mock_session.cache.remove_old_entries()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('method', ALL_METHODS)