Bulk recreate Things after binding updates?

[mas (Markus)]

I’ve noticed that the issue described here does not work properly unless all affected Things are deleted and recreated:

useTags=true not applied in .items although bindings provide default semantic tags

This is a follow-up to a discussion in the openHAB 5.1 release thread: According to the Release Notes and documentation, bindings can provide recommended default semantic tags that can be applied using [useTags=true] in .items files. I verified that such default semantic tags are present by creating items via the UI (Astro and deCONZ bindings), where the semantic model are applied as expected. However, defining the same items in .items files using [useTags=true] does not apply semantic tags…

I tested this with a few Things: after deleting and recreating them, useTags=true is applied correctly and the default semantic tags provided by the binding are present as expected.

However, I have a large number of Things, and deleting and recreating them manually via the UI is very time-consuming.