address comments

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Adelöw <freben@gmail.com>

plugins/catalog/api-report.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ export type BackstageOverrides = Overrides & {
 
 // Warning: (ae-missing-release-tag) "CatalogClientWrapper" is exported by the package, but it is missing a release tag (@alpha, @beta, @public, or @internal)
 //
-// @public
+// @public @deprecated
 export class CatalogClientWrapper implements CatalogApi {
   constructor(options: { client: CatalogClient; identityApi: IdentityApi });
   // (undocumented)

plugins/catalog/src/CatalogClientWrapper.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ import { IdentityApi } from '@backstage/core-plugin-api';
 
 /**
  * CatalogClient wrapper that injects identity token for all requests
+ *
+ * @deprecated The default catalog client now uses the `fetchApiRef`
+ * implementation, which in turn by default issues tokens just the same as this
+ * class used to assist in doing. If you use a custom `fetchApiRef`
+ * implementation that does NOT issue tokens, or use a custom `catalogApiRef`
+ * implementation which does not use the default `fetchApiRef`, you can wrap
+ * your catalog API in this class to get back the old behavior.
  */
 export class CatalogClientWrapper implements CatalogApi {
   private readonly identityApi: IdentityApi;

plugins/catalog/src/plugin.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import {
   entityRouteRef,
   starredEntitiesApiRef,
 } from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-react';
-import { CatalogClientWrapper } from './CatalogClientWrapper';
 import { createComponentRouteRef, viewTechDocRouteRef } from './routes';
 import {
   createApiFactory,
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ import {
   createPlugin,
   createRoutableExtension,
   discoveryApiRef,
-  identityApiRef,
+  fetchApiRef,
   storageApiRef,
 } from '@backstage/core-plugin-api';
 
@@ -39,14 +38,13 @@ export const catalogPlugin = createPlugin({
   apis: [
     createApiFactory({
       api: catalogApiRef,
-      deps: { discoveryApi: discoveryApiRef, identityApi: identityApiRef },
-      factory: ({ discoveryApi, identityApi }) =>
-        new CatalogClientWrapper({
-          client: new CatalogClient({ discoveryApi }),
-          identityApi,
-        }),
+      deps: {
+        discoveryApi: discoveryApiRef,
+        fetchApi: fetchApiRef,
+      },
+      factory: ({ discoveryApi, fetchApi }) =>
+        new CatalogClient({ discoveryApi, fetchApi }),
     }),
-
     createApiFactory({
       api: starredEntitiesApiRef,
       deps: { storageApi: storageApiRef },