jfly
commented
8 years ago The JSON file is created with countries.name
Are you sure about this, @Luis-J-Ianez? The [WCA Competition JSON Format]() clearly says this about countryId: "Country codes must follow ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 codes".
Looking at the JSON for a few competitions I've been involved in, it looks like ISO2 codes indeed are generated by the WA. Code inspection also tells me that WA generates ISO2 codes. Please see here.
It's hard for me to know exactly what happened without the relevant Excel file from cubecomps, but here's my take on this. Please correct me if I'm wrong:
- This does not feel like a WA bug. The WA looks like it's doing exactly what it is was written to do: it takes a "country id" (from the WCA database, such as
Cote d_Ivoire), and it generates JSON with a valid ISO2 code. - Instead, this is a cubecomps bug, as cubecomps generated an excel file by filling in the country cell with a country name, rather than a country id.
I'm going to optimisitically close this issue, but please reopen if my understanding is flawed.
Luis-J-Ianez
The JSON file is created with countries.name, while WA seems to be expecting countries.id. This is a problem for "Cote d'Ivoire" and "Cote d_Ivoire".