[SIS-198] Remove "remarks" property from ImmutableIdentifier (replaced by "description")

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Component/s: Metadata
• Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 13/Apr/15 11:10
• Updated: 05/Oct/15 15:42
• Resolved: 13/Apr/15 14:38

Description

The new revision of ISO 19115 published in 2013 introduces a new property in Identifier: a description as a human-readable text. This description duplicates our non-standard remarks property. Since ImmutableIdentifier.remarks was non-standard and Identifier.description is standard by now, we should remove remarks in favour of description. More specifically:

• Remove remarks from ImmutableIdentifier
• Constructors expecting an InternationalString now store the value in the description property rather than remarks.
• Deprecate getRemarks() and isDeprecated() method, with a Javadoc note saying that those methods are still available in the Deprecable interface.
• ImmutableIdentifier does not implement Deprecable anymore (however internal sub-classes does).