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Standardize exported field names: A plea for use of camelCase everywhere #668

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Using 

http://bie.ala.org.au/ws/download?q=Macropus&fields=guid,kingdom,phylum,class,bi
oOrder,family,genus,nameComplete,scientificName,scientificNameRaw,scientificName
Text,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.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by leebel...@gmail.com on 14 May 2014 at 1:54