SONAR-3879 Replace rule status enumeration in the annotation by a string

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Rule.java b/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Rule.java
index 391ca5a4043..d754f488e4a 100644
--- a/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Rule.java
+++ b/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Rule.java
@@ -65,5 +65,5 @@ public @interface Rule {
    * The rule status. Can be READY, BETA or DEPRECATED
    * @since 3.6
    */
-  Status status() default Status.READY;
+  String status() default "READY";
 }
diff --git a/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Status.java b/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Status.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f74e8b1b22..00000000000
--- a/sonar-check-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/check/Status.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Sonar, open source software quality management tool.
- * Copyright (C) 2008-2012 SonarSource
- * mailto:contact AT sonarsource DOT com
- *
- * Sonar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * Sonar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with Sonar; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02
- */
-package org.sonar.check;
-
-/**
- * @since 3.6
- */
-public enum Status {
-  READY, BETA, DEPRECATED;
-}