Remove some deprecated methods

To avoid the use of slow queries, remove some deprecated methods and encourage
the use of ProjectFinder to find projects.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/api/v3/helpers.rb b/lib/api/v3/helpers.rb
index 06af286ef50..d9e76560d03 100644
--- a/lib/api/v3/helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/api/v3/helpers.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ module API
         end
 
         if params[:visibility].present?
-          projects = projects.search_by_visibility(params[:visibility])
+          projects = projects.where(visibility_level: Gitlab::VisibilityLevel.level_value(params[:visibility]))
         end
 
         projects = projects.where(archived: params[:archived])
diff --git a/lib/api/v3/projects.rb b/lib/api/v3/projects.rb
index 164612cb8dd..896c00b88e7 100644
--- a/lib/api/v3/projects.rb
+++ b/lib/api/v3/projects.rb
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ module API
         get '/starred' do
           authenticate!
 
-          present_projects current_user.viewable_starred_projects
+          present_projects ProjectsFinder.new(current_user: current_user, params: { starred: true }).execute
         end
 
         desc 'Get all projects for admin user' do