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The section type slash-issue

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating the code that searches sections by type and inspect how type values are compared. Trace the slash-separated type example from the issue and verify whether searching for "recordingdevice" also matches "daq/hardware/recordingdevice". Done means hierarchical type searches return matching descendant types without breaking existing classifier searches.

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Description

Section types are currently used as a classifier of sections independent of their hierarchical order, e.g.:
the section "UtahArray", and the section "TungstenElectrode" could both have the section type "recordingdevice" even if they are located at different branches and levels of an odML document.

Via a slash separator one can also build a type hierarchy, e.g.:
section "TungstenElectrode" with type "daq/hardware/recordingdevice"

If one searches now for the the type "recordingdevice" one should still get the section "TungstenElectrode" which is currently not the case or at least I don't know how.

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Python
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