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Adding get_symbols_list method to base class ...

Open cottrell opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Am having a look at various methods here, possibly fixing some things. Along the way I've noticed there really aren't many sources that have what I like to call an "arg-gen" method that might yield the list of symbols or datasets query-able by the class. Is this something that has been avoided due to worries of abuse?

Also was thinking about using some distributed and shareable cache as a means of throttling the global behaviour. Anyone aware of any discussions related to these two related ideas? I tried on gitter but no one is there.

cottrell avatar Dec 08 '18 17:12 cottrell

If a provider has an endpoint that returns the list of datasets, we are happy to include it. We have avoided fishing-like behavior that tries to discover what is available.

bashtage avatar Sep 18 '19 08:09 bashtage