SONAR-9322 deprecate RulesProfile#setParentName(String)

Hierarchy of profiles in plugin API has never been implemented.
 The method is misleading so it's marked as deprecated.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/profiles/RulesProfile.java b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/profiles/RulesProfile.java
index 01e1307210d..36e058071dd 100644
--- a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/profiles/RulesProfile.java
+++ b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/profiles/RulesProfile.java
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ public class RulesProfile implements Cloneable {
   private String name;
   private Boolean defaultProfile = Boolean.FALSE;
   private String language;
-  private String parentName;
   private List<ActiveRule> activeRules = new ArrayList<>();
 
   /**
@@ -217,22 +216,25 @@ public class RulesProfile implements Cloneable {
   }
 
   /**
-   * For internal use only.
+   * Does nothing.
    *
-   * @since 2.5
+   * @return {@code null}
+   * @deprecated in 6.5
    */
+  @Deprecated
   @CheckForNull
   public String getParentName() {
-    return parentName;
+    return null;
   }
 
   /**
-   * For internal use only.
+   * Does nothing.
    *
-   * @since 2.5
+   * @deprecated in 6.5
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public void setParentName(String parentName) {
-    this.parentName = parentName;
+    // does nothing
   }
 
   /**
@@ -338,7 +340,6 @@ public class RulesProfile implements Cloneable {
   public Object clone() {
     RulesProfile clone = RulesProfile.create(getName(), getLanguage());
     clone.setDefaultProfile(getDefaultProfile());
-    clone.setParentName(getParentName());
     if (activeRules != null && !activeRules.isEmpty()) {
       clone.setActiveRules(Lists.transform(activeRules, CloneFunction.INSTANCE));
     }