Telemetry Stations - would be nice to be able to filter on station name #46
Description
I recently needed to find a station by its name for third party (CPW) data. The TSTool datastore Where filters do not allow station name to be filtered on so it can be difficult to look up a station. The CDSS REST URL builder does not list station name. The name does come back in the response and can also be indicated in the fields query parameter.
If the web service API does not support, I could add as a post-processor in TSTool, but that will cause me to do some extra coding and there is a disconnect with the API.
I'm going to point DWR to this issue and see if they can add the name to the URL query string as a filter. Maybe it is difficult because they would need to implement "starts with", "contains", etc.? A decision would also need to be made as to whether the search is case-sensitive, consistent with other API conventions.