Remove deprecated SmartConsumer, PublishingConsumer, SmartPublishingConsumer

These have been deprecated aliases for Consumer since 3.17 / 4.0.
Removing them as part of the 4.0 release — use Consumer directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: gmr

rejected/__init__.py

@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@
     ConsumerException,
     MessageException,
     ProcessingException,
-    PublishingConsumer,
-    SmartConsumer,
-    SmartPublishingConsumer,
 )
 
 __author__ = 'Gavin M. Roy <gavinmroy@gmail.com>'
@@ -33,9 +30,6 @@
     'ConsumerException',
     'MessageException',
     'ProcessingException',
-    'PublishingConsumer',
-    'SmartConsumer',
-    'SmartPublishingConsumer',
     '__author__',
     '__since__',
     '__version__',

rejected/consumer.py

@@ -1652,55 +1652,6 @@ def _serialize_avro(avro_schema: dict, data: dict) -> bytes:
         return stream.getvalue()
 
 
-class SmartConsumer(Consumer):
-    """Deprecated alias for :class:`Consumer`.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 4.0.0
-        Use :class:`Consumer` directly.
-
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        warnings.warn(
-            'SmartConsumer is deprecated, use Consumer directly',
-            DeprecationWarning,
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-class PublishingConsumer(Consumer):
-    """Deprecated alias for :class:`Consumer`.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 3.17.0
-
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        warnings.warn(
-            'PublishingConsumer is deprecated, use Consumer directly',
-            DeprecationWarning,
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
-class SmartPublishingConsumer(Consumer):
-    """Deprecated alias for :class:`Consumer`.
-
-    .. deprecated:: 3.17.0
-
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        warnings.warn(
-            'SmartPublishingConsumer is deprecated, use Consumer directly',
-            DeprecationWarning,
-            stacklevel=2,
-        )
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-
 class RejectedException(Exception):
     """Base exception for :py:class:`~rejected.consumer.Consumer` related
     exceptions.

tests/test_consumer.py

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ async def test_user_id_property(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.obj.user_id, mocks.PROPERTIES.user_id)
 
 
-class TestSmartConsumer(consumer.SmartConsumer):
+class TestSmartConsumer(consumer.Consumer):
     async def process(self):
         pass
 

tests/test_testing.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 class TestPublishedMessages(testing.AsyncTestCase):
     def get_consumer(self):
-        class Consumer(consumer.SmartConsumer):
+        class Consumer(consumer.Consumer):
             async def process(self):
                 for i in range(10):
                     self.publish_message(
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ async def test_order_preserved(self):
 
 class TestProcessingException(testing.AsyncTestCase):
     def get_consumer(self):
-        class Consumer(consumer.SmartConsumer):
+        class Consumer(consumer.Consumer):
             async def process(self):
                 raise consumer.ProcessingException
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ async def test_republished(self):
 
 class TestMessageException(testing.AsyncTestCase):
     def get_consumer(self):
-        class Consumer(consumer.SmartConsumer):
+        class Consumer(consumer.Consumer):
             MESSAGE_TYPE = 'a_type'
 
         return Consumer