Description

See:
https://mongo-db.slack.com/archives/C0KT5MWSH/p1553100673685800
https://mongo-db.slack.com/archives/C0KT5MWSH/p1553100695686400

From the driver perspective, the contentType and alias fields have been deprecated since 2015 in favor of the metadata field (GridFS Spec). These fields are not mentioned as deprecated in the docs for GridFS. Is there another mechanism for using contentType or aliases that has not deprecated these fields (like the shell or mongofiles)? If not, can we change the documentation to mark these fields as deprecated?

Thanks,
Dan

Scope of changes

• mark contentType and aliases as deprecated
• Advise users to use metadata for storing that information
• mark md5 as deprecated
• Advise users to create their own file digest/hash and add it to metadata

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