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Refactor of terminology retrieval of sections

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating get_terminology_equivalent() and reading its callers and the Section model. Reproduce the reported case with multiple Sections sharing a type, then clarify how additional attributes should select terminology and what result callers expect before defining completion criteria.

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Description

terminology v1.4

Currently the terminology equivalent of a Section is found in the given repository by matching the Section type.

This is problematic for the following reason: A Section type, as I understood it so far, is meant to group related Sections to an superior class. For example, two different Electrodes from different vendors with different Properties can be grouped via their type which could be 'electrode', even if the Section names are vendor-specific. In such a case, the function get_terminology_equivalent() will currently unfortunately only return the first Section with the type 'electrode' and ignore the second Section in the repository.

Of course one could provide always a unique Section type to avoid this, but I think then one could directly use the Section Name instead and the possibility an overall classification method for Sections is lost.

Instead one could return a list of all sections with the stated type and also use in addition other attributes to retrieve terminologies.

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