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Standardize exported field names: A plea for use of camelCase everywhere #22

Closed Tasilee closed 6 years ago

Tasilee commented 10 years ago

migrated from: https://code.google.com/p/ala/issues/detail?id=668 date: Tue May 13 18:54:15 2014 author: leebel...@gmail.com

Using

http://bie.ala.org.au/ws/download?q=Macropus&fields=guid,kingdom,phylum,class,bioOrder,family,genus,nameComplete,scientificName,scientificNameRaw,scientificNameText,rank,occurrenceCount,georeferencedCount

as an example, I noted that

nameComplete produces "Scientific Name" on export scientificName produces "scientificName" on export scientificNameRaw produces "Scientific Name" on export

So there is some ambiguity when looking at the output. I suspect there may be other fields with similar problems.

Relating also to issue #650, it would be wonderful to see the exported field names as ALL camelCase as per ws. This would address the ambiguity problem.

There is also (related to #650) the same issue of field definitions as (for example) http://bie.ala.org.au/ws/admin/indexFields doesn't have a "Description" while happily http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/index/fields does.

nickdos commented 8 years ago

This issue was moved to AtlasOfLivingAustralia/bie-index#34

nickdos commented 8 years ago

wanted a copy...