[BioSQL-l] namespace and find_by_unique_key

[Marc Logghe]

Hi Hilmar, 
> You can convince me that this is bad if the namespace is set 
> but fails 
> to be looked up (because it's not in the database). I guess 
> my original 
> intent was to be graceful with typing errors, but you have a 
> case where 
> this behavior clearly doesn't sound very helpful.
> 
> Do you suggest to change this such that if the namespace is 
> defined in 
> the query sequence but is not in the database the unique key query 
> should not find anything?

You think it is feasible to code a kind of comprimise ? Setting a 'strict' argument to 1 if you don't want cross namespace searches in case no/wrong namespace is passed. The default could be strict => 0, the original behaviour, being graceful with typos. 
Just an idea.
Cheers,
Marc