[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26635] Expand authorised values in REST API call

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26635

--- Comment #47 from Tomás Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #46)
> In any case, I reckon backwards compatibility is important, especially since
> we're still using "v1" for the API, so I don't think we can change the
> existing "location" field.

Agreed!

> On non-Koha projects where I've needed to maintain backwards compatibility,
> I've added fields like "location_description". 

Right. We also need the category it is linked to, do we can draw things like
drop-downs.

> Sometimes, I think that authorised values should be removed from item data,
> and replaced with proper foreign key references. 
> 
> Location is an important field which by rights deserves its own database
> table I think.

Locations, collections... We've done that with credit/debit tired recently.

> Of course, that data migration is easier said than done...

Generally speaking, the problem is lack of infinite time.

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