Upgrading from 4.x to 5.x

GTIN-8's prefix type is now GS18Prefix

To correctly handle the difference between GS1 Prefixes for GTIN-12/13/14 and GS1-8 Prefixes for GTIN-8, a new class GS18Prefix has been added. It has the same interface as GS1Prefix, but is a separate type.

• biip.gtin.Gtin.prefix field is now of type biip.gs1_prefixes.GS18Prefix for GTIN-8, and remains of type biip.gs1_prefixes.GS1Prefix for GTIN-12/13/14. (PR !403)

GS1 Web URIs are now GS1 Digital Link URIs

GS1 Digital Link standard v1.1 renamed the concept from "Web URI" to "Digital Link URI". The corresponding APIs in Biip have been renamed.

• biip.ParseResult.gs1_web_uri field has moved to biip.ParseResult.gs1_digital_link_uri (PR !396)

• biip.ParseResult.gs1_web_uri_error field has moved to biip.ParseResult.gs1_digital_link_uri_error (PR !396)

• biip.gs1_messages.GS1Message.as_gs1_web_uri() has moved to biip.gs1_messages.GS1Message.as_gs1_digital_link_uri() (PR !396)

• biip.gs1_web_uris.GS1WebURI has moved to biip.gs1_digital_link_uris.GS1DigitalLinkURI (PR !396)

• biip.symbology.GS1Symbology.with_gs1_web_uri() has moved to biip.symbology.GS1Symbology.with_gs1_digital_link_uri() (PR !396)

GS1 Application Identifier aliases in URIs are not supported

GS1 Digital Link standard v1.2 deprecated and v1.3 removed the concept of aliases. Biip no longer supports aliases in URIs, as this is recommended to not support in newer implementations to reduce complexity.

That is, the following is not supported:

https://id.gs1.org/gtin/07032069804988100329/lot/ABC

But this is supported:

https://id.gs1.org/01/07032069804988100329/10/ABC

(Fixes: #394, PR: !396)