astronomy-commons/hats-tap

Translate ADQL ID searches to `.id_search`

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#14 opened on Dec 1, 2025

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Description

Feature request

SELECT * FROM ppdb.DiaObject WHERE diaObjectId=24624704620855420

should become

compute(ppdb.id_search(values={"diaObjectId": 24624704620855420}))

The translator will need to have enough context to know:

  1. That diaObjectId is an ID
  2. To call .id_search rather than .query

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Research direction
Understand how the existing ADQL to SQL translation works, then implement a path that detects ID columns and generates .id search instead of .query.
Tech stack
python
Domain
backenddata
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Feature
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2
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Half day
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Clear
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PythonSQL
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65