fix: Restore method removed without prior notice

[manusa]

Description

Method removed in #2667 is still used by dependent projects (cc @ppatierno)

Restored the missing method and added a @Depreaction annotation yet to be discussed.

Relates to #2738

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change
• Chore (non-breaking change which doesn't affect codebase;
  test, version modification, documentation, etc.)

Checklist

• Code contributed by me aligns with current project license: Apache 2.0
• I Added CHANGELOG entry regarding this change
• I have implemented unit tests to cover my changes
• I have added/updated the javadocs and other documentation accordingly
• No new bugs, code smells, etc. in SonarCloud report
• I tested my code in Kubernetes
• I tested my code in OpenShift

[centos-ci]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[ppatierno]

Not a admin/maintainer but I approve :-) thanks!

[rohanKanojia]

I think we would need to update CRD registering logic too to be able to register same pojo for different versions of Custom Resource depending upon OperationContext, right now we're picking group and version from annotations. If someone tries to override this with custom CRDContext, this might fail during watch :

kubernetes-client/kubernetes-client/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/informers/SharedInformerFactory.java

Lines 342 to 345 in 698eda1

	private <T extends HasMetadata> void registerKindToKubernetesDeserializer(Class<T> apiTypeClass) {
	if (CustomResource.class.isAssignableFrom(apiTypeClass)) {
	KubernetesDeserializer.registerCustomKind(HasMetadata.getApiVersion(apiTypeClass), apiTypeClass.getSimpleName(), apiTypeClass);
	}

[metacosm]

LGTM apart the Deprecated comment.

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