Think about the information management problem

[agstephens]

Information components:

• vocabularies
• regexes
• regex rules
• function rules
• format checks?
• template checks
• groups (profiles?) of checks/rules
• profiles made up of groups

Questions

• What is a "rule" and what is a "check"?
  • A rule: should be used in the context: the value here must match this rule.
  • A check: relates to a function that checks anything:
    • can do multiple things in one go
    • can group things done in other check functions
    • can include things done in rules
• How to define the difference between checks that address a single component in the file versus more ethereal checks (e.g. make sure all variables have at least a long_name)?
  • we probably need to group checks like these: https://github.com/cedadev/compliance-check-lib/tree/main/checklib/register:
    • file checks
    • format checks
    • dimension checks
    • variable checks
    • nc file checks
• Can we make it easy to query and display all the different components?

Command-line ideas:

checksit list-profiles
checksit show-checks -t all
checksit show-checks --type=regex,func-rules
checksit show-profile amof-2.0
checksit show-profile ceda-base-checks-1.0