Removed worldExtent project site default for sciStarter projects with…

…out a project area

grails-app/services/au/org/ala/ecodata/ProjectService.groovy

@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ class ProjectService {
  * @return
  */
  Map createSciStarterSites(Map project) {
- Map result = [siteIds: null]
+ Map result = [siteIds: []]
  List sites = []
  if (project.regions) {
  // convert region to site
@@ -895,12 +895,6 @@ class ProjectService {
  }
 
  result.siteIds = sites
- } else {
- // if no region, then create world extent.
- String siteId = getWorldExtent()
- if (siteId) {
- result.siteIds = [siteId]
- }
  }
 
  result
@@ -977,18 +971,6 @@ class ProjectService {
  }
  }
 
- /**
- * World extent is used as project area of all SciStarter Projects without project area. This function
- * creates a new world extent every time it is called.
- * @return - siteId - 'abcd-sds'
- */
- String getWorldExtent() {
- // use JSON.parse since JSONSlurper converts numbers to BigDecimal which throws error on serialization.
- Object world = JSON.parse(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/data/worldExtent.json")?.getText())
- Map site = siteService.create(world)
- return site.siteId
- }
-
  /**
  * Get a String that describes a project. This used for indexing purposes currently.
  * The motivaion for this method was because there was no single field to distinguish between projects but had multiple