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dr-rodriguez / DSII_LocalGroupDB

The Local Group Galaxy Database
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Why do references have a "key" and "id"? #19

Open eteq opened 4 years ago

eteq commented 4 years ago

I noticed the example references file (https://github.com/dr-rodriguez/DSII_LocalGroupDB/blob/master/references.json) has both a 'key' and an 'id' field. What's the distinction there? Is one not necessarily unique? If not maybe just 'key' is necessary? (Or "id" can be auto-generated somehow at runtime if it's a db thing?)

dr-rodriguez commented 4 years ago

I don't rightly remember, it could be because the original data had numbers for the references. Key should be unique and used when possible. I consider references.json to still be a prototype implementation.

eteq commented 4 years ago

Gotcha. Going forward I'd say it makes sense to use only key then - I think the original data reference numbers were just there as because it made sense for the table format so we can probably let them go once things have proceeded past prototype.