need convenience function for /entity/child
Description
There are new services that replace the most commonly used queries to the deprecated entity query service. They are:
http://docs.synapse.org/rest/POST/entity/children.html
(lists the children of a given parent entity)
http://docs.synapse.org/rest/POST/entity/child.html
(find the entity with a given parent and a given name)
There is a convenience function in Python for the first, but not for the second. Need convenience function in Python (and by extension in R) to facilitate users stop using the entity query function.
Environment
Activity
Validated from R!
To validate:
use syn.findEntityId() to find an entity's id using its name and parent
We have had a private function def _findEntityIdByNameAndParent(self, name, parent=None) for several years that was switched from query to the /entity/child call in 1.7.
Should this be made public?
There isn't a function for "POST /entity/child" to search a container for an entity by name.
As Kenny points out, already done!
