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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mansi,

Names for DataElementCategoryOptionCombo are not persisted, but rather
generated on the fly. Please have a look
at DataElementCategoryOptionCombo.getName.

I don't know exactly why this is, I will let Lars add to it.

--
Morten


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Mansi Singhal <msinghal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are creating category option combos by posting the following JSON to
> /api/metadata.
>
> {
>     "categoryOptionCombos": [{
>         "id": "cdf922cc47b",
>         "categoryCombo": {
>             "name": "A and B",
>             "id": "abe84f2cf8e"
>         },
>         "name": "(abc, def)",
>         "categoryOptions": [{
>             "id": "z2ab39bcfd7",
>             "name": "abc"
>         }, {
>             "id": "c78bd47f6af",
>             "name": "def"
>         }]
>     }]
> }
>
> When we are trying to GET the category option combos using
> /api/categoryOptionCombos, the name we get is inconsistent with every call.
> We are getting (abc, def) for some times and (def, abc) some other times.
>
> Is this the intended behavior? Shouldn't the name retrieved be the same as
> the name POSTed as is the case for every other metadata?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mansi Singhal
>
>
>