Obsolete with Managed entities?

[jensschuppe]

It seems to me that this might become obsolete when you use CiviCRM's managed entities for synchronising custom data (or any other CiviCRM entities).

There even seems to be a very easy way of generating managed entities via the APIv4 explorer, as @colemanw pointed out in systopia/de.systopia.eck#32.

Also, APIv4 comes with much better accessibility for code that needs to translate custom field names into IDs and vice versa, so that part of Custom-Date-Helper doesn't seem to provide that much benefit anymore either.

[bjendres]

ManagedEntities have been around for longer than the CustomDataHelper, but have (had?) a couple of drawbacks and instabilities. I wouldn't want to switch unless we're sure they're gone.

Also, the CustomDataHelper offers additional functions, such as the APIv3 access to those custom fields. I have no idea whether this will be obsolete with APIv4.

[colemanw]

My recommendation would be to use APIv4 and ManagedEntities for all new projects. I'm not sure what drawbacks you mean specifically @bjendres but the APIv4 flavor of managed entities is pretty good IMO. A lot of the issues with the v3 managed entities have been solved.
Obviously you'll need to keep this extension around for a while for legacy support.