Hi all.
Is there an equivalent of Airtable typecasting in Baserow?
e.g. in Airtable, when you POST a record which contains a linked field and if you pass the first column data and not the linked record id, it automatically:
Hi @shrey!
No, Baserow doesn’t automatically cast data to their potential ids. As this would involve a performance penalty for all users, I am not sure whether we would be implementing something like this. Can you describe how/for what do you currently use it like this in Airtable?
Hi @petrs .
So, i use it in several of my interactions with the Airtable API, where a table contains linked fields (which is most of the times).
I almost never ‘retrieve & pass’ the id of the record to be linked.
I just pass the column data of the primary column, and the rest of the typecasting is done by the Airtable’s API, which is significantly more convenient for me. Especially, when a new record also needs to be created in the linked table (if it doesn’t already exist).
I see, we will discuss this in the team and will post an update here.
So this is an interesting feature that we will consider to add in the future, but it is not an immediate priority.