BASIN-3D/basin3d

dataclass defaults are accidentally shared

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defaults with dataclasses are pretty unintuitive IMO. It's a good idea to always instantiate using default_factory, otherwise you end up with things like:

>>> from basin3d.core.models import ObservedProperty, ObservedPropertyVariable
>>> op = ObservedProperty()
>>> op.observed_property_variable.basin3d_id='x'
>>> op
ObservedProperty(datasource_variable='', observed_property_variable=ObservedPropertyVariable(basin3d_id='x', full_name='', categories=[], units=''), sampling_medium='', datasource=DataSource(id='', name='', id_prefix='', location='', credentials={}), datasource_description='')
>>> op2 = ObservedProperty()
>>> op2
ObservedProperty(datasource_variable='', observed_property_variable=ObservedPropertyVariable(basin3d_id='x', full_name='', categories=[], units=''), sampling_medium='', datasource=DataSource(id='', name='', id_prefix='', location='', credentials={}), datasource_description='')
>>> op2.observed_property_variable.basin3d_id = 'y'
>>> op
ObservedProperty(datasource_variable='', observed_property_variable=ObservedPropertyVariable(basin3d_id='y', full_name='', categories=[], units=''), sampling_medium='', datasource=DataSource(id='', name='', id_prefix='', location='', credentials={}), datasource_description='')

better yet, use dataclasses or pydantic generated from linkml :-)