Add "required" field for tag results in exported data

[shisaru292]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use one template with different "required" settings of tags for different projects. This is designed to reduce the burden of tagging tasks and to give different emphasis each time. But when I analyze the results, I need to distinguish whether a certain tag is required or not, such as filtering the post processed results with elasticsearch.

Describe the solution you'd like

# FROM
"result": [
    {
        "value": {
            "choices": [
                "No"
            ]
        },
        "id": "8264eY7_8D",
        "from_name": "_1003",
        "to_name": "dialogue_html",
        "type": "choices",
        "origin": "manual"
    },
    ...
]

# TO
"result": [
    {
        "value": {
            "choices": [
                "No"
            ]
        },
        "id": "8264eY7_8D",
        "from_name": "_1003",
        "to_name": "dialogue_html",
        "type": "choices",
        "origin": "manual",
        "required": false  // add this new field
    },
    ...
]

Describe alternatives you've considered I have considerd put the information into "from_name" for now, wihch is the name of a tag like Choices. For example when I generate the template for a new project, I might be able to:

if item.get("required", False):
        name = name + "_r" # r for required
    else:
        name = name + "_o" # o for optional

But such code with pre and post process looks very ...irregular. And what's more, old projects cannot add the information with updating the new generated template directly.

Consider more, "required" information is only one of many meta-information. Perhaps a more flexible string array of meta information could be used to augment such information?

Additional context No

[shisaru292]

Another alternative now im using is to request label_config XML through the project read API (api/projects/1/?include=id%2Ctitle%2Clabel_config) and get the "required" settings before processing and storing the exported data (e.g. via api/projects/1/export) into analytics engine.

[jombooth]

/jira create

Workflow run Jira issue TRIAG-766 is created

[jombooth]

Hi @shisaru292 - thanks for raising! Requesting the label config through the API makes sense, but so does your point about including an indicator for required in the export output. I'll raise with the team.