IDs for Indicators are not static
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Obviously as the JSON API is undocumented, they are not bound to the IDs static. I got a rude awakening when this morning my reachability indicators suddenly changed to unemployment rates.
This is clearly not in your responsibility, yet I think it would be beneficial to add this information to the readme, just so people should increase their test coverage to cover this possible problem.
Not sure I follow. Can you explain what changed?
As an example, previously, the average driving time to the next airport was accessible by calling
get_variables(theme="335", geography="KRE"). Now this instead gives "Nicht erwerbsfähige SGBII-Leistungsberechtigte unter 15 Jahren je 100 Einwohner unter 15 Jahren", whatever that means. Instead it is now accessible by calling get_variables(theme="346", geography="KRE").
Such changes were prevalent with next to all indicators I am using.
Oh, ok! Thanks for sharing. I will put a note in the Readme.
I likely would have overlooked this and would have ended up with wrong data, if the ID used so far (get_data(variable = '111', geography = "GVB") would not have been completely vanished.
Is there a way to fix the IDs to a certain variable?
Or is KurznamePlus invariant? So it would be possible to dynamically fetch the ID by a variable name (such as fetch the ID of Einwohner unter 6 Jahre).
This is not an issue with the package but their (undocumented) API.
I see. Do you know if the values of KurznamePlus remains the same over time?
I don't know.
Okay, thank you though :)