Every dataframe returned has an "id" column that the waterdata module renames to the appropriate [service]_id. Some ids are ephemeral in the database and are meaningless to the user; they cannot be relied upon to pull the same result through time. These include:
"daily_id" from the daily service
"latest_continuous_id" from the latest continuous service
"latest_daily_id" from the latest daily service
"continuous_id" from the continuous service
"field_measurement_id" from the field measurements service
However, some ids are inherently meaningful. These include:
"monitoring_location_id"
"field_visit_id"
"time_series_id"
This issue covers adding an argument arbitrarily set to "True" that removes those superfluous id columns in the first list.
Every dataframe returned has an "id" column that the
waterdatamodule renames to the appropriate [service]_id. Some ids are ephemeral in the database and are meaningless to the user; they cannot be relied upon to pull the same result through time. These include:"daily_id" from the daily service
"latest_continuous_id" from the latest continuous service
"latest_daily_id" from the latest daily service
"continuous_id" from the continuous service
"field_measurement_id" from the field measurements service
However, some ids are inherently meaningful. These include:
"monitoring_location_id"
"field_visit_id"
"time_series_id"
This issue covers adding an argument arbitrarily set to "True" that removes those superfluous id columns in the first list.