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Reconsider harvest mapping recusrion #685

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atruskie opened this issue Oct 8, 2024 · 0 comments

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enhancement feature: harvesting

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atruskie commented Oct 8, 2024

A repeated frustration users have reported is that it does not make sense for the values of the mappings to not recurse.

We chose the strategy of choosing the first mapping record that matches a path and then we use the values for the folder.

But we should instead consider doing this search for each mapping for each value - continuing to recurse if we find a non-null value.

Here is an example where a user expected the values to recurse and contacted us to work out what was wrong:

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