From b39daa128e3fe9d84c8c8cfc11f82c7524ae4a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Holmberg <Adam.Holmberg@datastax.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:03:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning when list prepend is used.

---
 cassandra/cqlengine/statements.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cassandra/cqlengine/statements.py b/cassandra/cqlengine/statements.py
index 23415081..f64cc7a0 100644
--- a/cassandra/cqlengine/statements.py
+++ b/cassandra/cqlengine/statements.py
@@ -13,13 +13,17 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+import logging
 import time
 import six
+import warnings
 
 from cassandra.cqlengine import UnicodeMixin
 from cassandra.cqlengine.functions import QueryValue
 from cassandra.cqlengine.operators import BaseWhereOperator, InOperator
 
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class StatementException(Exception):
     pass
@@ -291,6 +295,11 @@ class ListUpdateClause(ContainerUpdateClause):
             ctx[str(ctx_id)] = self._to_database(self._assignments)
             ctx_id += 1
         if self._prepend is not None:
+            msg = "Previous versions of cqlengine implicitly reversed prepended lists to account for CASSANDRA-8733. " \
+                  "THIS VERSION DOES NOT. This warning will be removed in a future release."
+            warnings.warn(msg)
+            log.warning(msg)
+
             ctx[str(ctx_id)] = self._to_database(self._prepend)
             ctx_id += 1
         if self._append is not None: