From 52c1fd4582d871018ec13e6c2f34b43b865fe78d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liora Milbaum <liora@lmb.co.il>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:20:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: http_request return type change deprecation warning

---
 gitlab/client.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gitlab/client.py b/gitlab/client.py
index c3982f39d..4a0c6804f 100644
--- a/gitlab/client.py
+++ b/gitlab/client.py
@@ -749,6 +749,14 @@ def http_request(
             self._check_redirects(result.response)
 
             if 200 <= result.status_code < 300:
+                if gitlab.__version__ < "4.0.0":
+                    utils.warn(
+                        message=(
+                            "\nReturn type of gl.http_request() is changeing "
+                            "from version 4.0.0 to BackendResponse."
+                        ),
+                        category=DeprecationWarning,
+                    )
                 return result.response
 
             def should_retry() -> bool: