From b3ef24038b6a896017685e679a1b6623d5e40201 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Haals <johan.haals@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:58:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] catalog-react: Deprecate reduceCatalogFilters and
 reduceEntityFilters

Signed-off-by: Johan Haals <johan.haals@gmail.com>
---
 .changeset/orange-cups-smoke.md            |  5 +++++
 plugins/catalog-react/src/utils/filters.ts | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/orange-cups-smoke.md

diff --git a/.changeset/orange-cups-smoke.md b/.changeset/orange-cups-smoke.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2876c9c396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/orange-cups-smoke.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-react': patch
+---
+
+Deprecated `reduceCatalogFilters` and `reduceEntityFilters` as these helper functions are used internally and provides low external value.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/utils/filters.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/utils/filters.ts
index d64a821df7..68cd94fd6e 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/utils/filters.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/utils/filters.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@
 import { Entity } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { EntityFilter } from '../types';
 
-/** @public */
+/**
+ * @public
+ * @deprecated will be made private.
+ */
 export function reduceCatalogFilters(
   filters: EntityFilter[],
 ): Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]> {
@@ -29,7 +32,10 @@ export function reduceCatalogFilters(
   }, {} as Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>);
 }
 
-/** @public */
+/**
+ * @public
+ * @deprecated will be made private.
+ */
 export function reduceEntityFilters(
   filters: EntityFilter[],
 ): (entity: Entity) => boolean {

From 1210f9cb09e4bcf066673e37b5250360ffaa20d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Haals <johan.haals@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:41:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update API report

Signed-off-by: Johan Haals <johan.haals@gmail.com>
---
 plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md b/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
index 7e6b80bd19..33580ae40a 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
@@ -488,12 +488,12 @@ export const MockEntityListContextProvider: ({
   value?: Partial<EntityListContextProps<DefaultEntityFilters>> | undefined;
 }>) => JSX.Element;
 
-// @public (undocumented)
+// @public @deprecated (undocumented)
 export function reduceCatalogFilters(
   filters: EntityFilter[],
 ): Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>;
 
-// @public (undocumented)
+// @public @deprecated (undocumented)
 export function reduceEntityFilters(
   filters: EntityFilter[],
 ): (entity: Entity) => boolean;