Tag/Multitag hasFeature(name) and getFeature(name) do not work properly

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Tag/Multitag hasFeature(name) and getFeature(name) do not work properly #650

Closed jgrewe closed 7 years ago

jgrewe commented 7 years ago

Actually this is no bug but a "non-feature", i.e. the method is only supposed to take an id. In case one passes a name, it does not complain but also does not return a thing. One wonders, if we should add searching by name.

achilleas-k commented 7 years ago

It would be nice to support retrieval by name. I think it someone might expect that it would work since retrieving items by name in addition to ID is common throughout the library.