get_uuid still doesn't replicate phylopic.org search about rphylopic HOT 7 CLOSED

PhyloPic makes parallel calls to a number of external databases (EoL, GBIF, OTOL, PBDB) -- it's fairly complex and asynchronous. The details are in here: https://github.com/keesey/phylopic/tree/main/packages/ui/src/search

This is done client-side rather than server-side to keep PhyloPic's operating costs down.

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I forgot, I did document the general approach here: https://www.phylopic.org/articles/api-recipes#searching-name

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I believe there are R packages that interface with all of those databases, although it might just be easier for us to query their APIs ourselves instead of depending on those extra packages.

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Either way you'll still have to use the "Resolve Node" examples in the link above to translate results into the closest PhyloPic nodes.

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Note that there's some kind of bug on that page right now where it's inserting build=NaN into the queries. I need to fix that for the "play" buttons to work. But the documentation should still be useful.

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Plan:

resolve_phylopic(name, api = "paleobiodb.org", hierarchy = FALSE, n = 1)

• name: the taxonomic name that should be searched in the external api (see here: https://www.phylopic.org/articles/api-recipes#searching-name)
• api: the name of the external api/website (looks like phylopic supports quite a few, see the /namespaces endpoint)
• hierarchy: should the return be a single UUID (for the closest match from /resolve) or should we return a list (with a UUID for each taxonomic rank returned by the api)
• n: the number of UUIDs to be returned (per rank if hierarchy = TRUE)

Some notes:

• It looks like the /resolve endpoint returns the taxon UUID and a single image UUID, so if n>1 we will need to get the image UUIDs on our own

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I've started this on the resolve_phylopic branch

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