citation_to_bibkey API function

[xrotwang]

Implement a function

citation_to_bibkey("Safar & Webster 2014:9", bibfiles, iso, languoids) = "h:SafarWebster:Endangered-Sign"

The languoids argument would be a selection of languoids to consider. For
the use case I am thinking of, building the full index is probably
overkill. I am thinking just read the bibfiles, specified, select on the
languoids argument, and search linearly through that selection. One could
also consider an "searchin" argument where you give a string "Quechuan",
iso "eng" or languoid "blaa1234" and the search is through all languoids
in the subtree identified by the string.

[xrotwang]

See glottolog/glottolog#472

[xrotwang]

@d97hah The only problem I have with that kind of functionality is the following: How to you treat ambiguity? Do you just return the first hit? Is not finding any an error? citation_to_bibkey sounds as if there should be exactly one hit - because a citation is supposed to identify a source unambiguously. Maybe we should start with that?

Alternatively we could go for iter_bibkeys and just yield hits, so the caller can decide if the first is good enough?

[d97hah]

Yes, return iterator, users busines to sort out 0, 1 or more hits. rename function to _bibkeys accordingly Pada tanggal Sel, 18 Feb 2020 pukul 14.00 Robert Forkel < [email protected]> menulis:

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