From 35fb22cff02f36d7372ea2d7fca459b430f1a7e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cole <cpackingham@thezebra.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:32:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove http status text

---
 CHANGELOG.md         | 2 +-
 semconv/http.go      | 4 ----
 semconv/http_test.go | 1 -
 semconv/trace.go     | 3 ---
 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4deef4055bf..a89202be4fe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 
 - Remove the B3 propagator from `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/propagators`. It is now located in the
    `go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/propagators/` module. (#1191)
-
+- Remove semantic convention for HTTP status text.
 ### Fixed
 
 - Zipkin example no longer mentions `ParentSampler`, corrected to `ParentBased`. (#1171)
diff --git a/semconv/http.go b/semconv/http.go
index 1ffe550111f..b2b0ff74661 100644
--- a/semconv/http.go
+++ b/semconv/http.go
@@ -224,10 +224,6 @@ func HTTPAttributesFromHTTPStatusCode(code int) []label.KeyValue {
 	attrs := []label.KeyValue{
 		HTTPStatusCodeKey.Int(code),
 	}
-	text := http.StatusText(code)
-	if text != "" {
-		attrs = append(attrs, HTTPStatusTextKey.String(text))
-	}
 	return attrs
 }
 
diff --git a/semconv/http_test.go b/semconv/http_test.go
index a5943272b79..713c6c39068 100644
--- a/semconv/http_test.go
+++ b/semconv/http_test.go
@@ -682,7 +682,6 @@ func TestHTTPServerAttributesFromHTTPRequest(t *testing.T) {
 func TestHTTPAttributesFromHTTPStatusCode(t *testing.T) {
 	expected := []label.KeyValue{
 		label.Int("http.status_code", 404),
-		label.String("http.status_text", "Not Found"),
 	}
 	got := HTTPAttributesFromHTTPStatusCode(http.StatusNotFound)
 	assertElementsMatch(t, expected, got, "with valid HTTP status code")
diff --git a/semconv/trace.go b/semconv/trace.go
index 46330e32b18..c16efa21dd5 100644
--- a/semconv/trace.go
+++ b/semconv/trace.go
@@ -94,9 +94,6 @@ const (
 	// HTTP response status code.
 	HTTPStatusCodeKey = label.Key("http.status_code")
 
-	// HTTP reason phrase.
-	HTTPStatusTextKey = label.Key("http.status_text")
-
 	// Kind of HTTP protocol used.
 	HTTPFlavorKey = label.Key("http.flavor")