Deprecate ctx.elicit() without response_type#3916
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ctx.elicit(message=...)without aresponse_type(or withresponse_type=None) generates arequestedSchemaof{"type": "object", "properties": {}}. That's a valid JSON Schema but semantically meaningless under the current MCP spec's form-mode elicitation, and clients like VS Code render it as an empty form with a Submit button that does nothing — the tool call just hangs. See #3910.This PR emits a
FastMCPDeprecationWarningat call time pointing users at an explicitresponse_type. Behavior is unchanged for now so existing code keeps working; theNonepath will be removed in a future major. The warning respectsfastmcp.settings.deprecation_warningslike the rest of FastMCP's deprecations.Closes #3910