Enumerated values

The GBIF API has a number of controlled vocabularies to perform queries (also called "enumerations"). In order to keep the API and the package in sync, when the package is loaded, we query the API to see what values are enumerable, and what values are acceptable for each of these categories.

GBIF.enumerablevalues Function

enumerablevalues()

Returns an array of values that can be enumerated by the GBIF API.

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GBIF.enumeratedvalues Function

enumeratedvalues(enumerable::String)

For a given enumerable value (given as a string as reported by the output of the enumerablevalues function), this function will return an array of possible values.

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These functions are not exported, and are only called once per session to populate a dictionary with the accepted values. Note that at the moment, the only enumerated values that we store are the one accepted as search argument by the occurrence search endpoint.