docs: propose duplicate timeseries value handling - #1899
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Signed-off-by: Charles Graham, SWT <charles.r.graham@usace.army.mil>
Signed-off-by: Charles Graham, SWT <charles.r.graham@usace.army.mil>
Signed-off-by: Charles Graham, SWT <charles.r.graham@usace.army.mil>
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This looks reasonable to me. We'll give time for others to comment.
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Summary
Adds ADR 0014 defining how CDA time-series write requests should handle multiple values that resolve to the same effective CWMS storage timestamp.
The ADR proposes a
use-if-multipleAPI parameter with four strategies:error— reject the request; this is the defaultfirst— retain the first recordlast— retain the last recordaverage— use the arithmetic mean of non-null valuesThe
cwms-clicsv2cwmscommand already defines these options and handles them client-side. With this ADR, CDA can enforce the behavior at the backend, andcsv2cwmscan be updated to expose the methods provided by the API instead of resolving duplicates independently.i.e.
https://cwms-cli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli/csv2cwms_complete_config.html#use-if-multiple
The ADR distinguishes collisions at the effective CWMS storage timestamp from optional rounding or bucketing into a time-series interval. It also records follow-up questions about interval bucketing, averaged quality codes, future data-entry-date handling, and resolution reporting.
This is an ADR-only pull request and makes no code changes.
Related Issue
Related to #1783
Validation
./gradlew :docs:buildDocsdeveloponly by the ADR and decision-index entry.Checklist