character 425202218746 and achievement_list oddities

I don't know if this is a data conversion issue or a defect in the generation code, but this character (and a handful of others I don't have a list of) seem to have an odd achievement_list structure.

In the normal case, achievement_list is an array of achievements, but for these characters, achievement_list is a hash with one member, called "achievements", which then contains the expected array.

This is, to say the least, strange.

 

Any object that is a list container (follows the _list convention) must be a simple container.  It may not have any attributes on it.

Achievements do have top-level attributes that would normally go on the _list container, which would violate this convention.  In those cases, there is a container (achievements in this example) that holds those attributes, along with the _list of objects.

While this looks odd, it is the most consistent way to model the data so that it can be consistent.

-dan

 

Hmm, I don't think I was clear.

The structure looks like this (in pseudo-yaml) usually:

achievements:

  total: 12345

  points: 4512

  achievement_list:

    - { line item here }

    - { line item here }

The broken characters have this structure, with the oddity indicated in bold:

achievements:

  total: 12345

  points: 4512

  achievement_list:

    achievements:

      - { line item here }

      - { line item here }

 

Yeah...that's wrong.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

-dan