Deleting a Variable Collection does not clean up Variables in that collection
Deleting a Variable Collection does not clean up Variables in that collection
At least I am pretty sure that is the case. I've got tests setup with the public API and made a mistake, where I deleted collections before deleting variables in them. When I then recreate the same variable collection and variable, it fails for the variable as it says that there is duplicate key. So presumably there is still a variable with that key in the system, but I cannot actually retrieve that variable, because it is connected to a variable collection that no longer exists. The UI does not prevent me from deleting a collections that contain variables either, and leaves the same orphan variables behind. I did all my testing in my API Client Test World: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/api-client-test-world-soullink There should either be a system that prevents the deletion of a variable collection when it still contains variables, or a system where variable collection deletion also cleans up all the variables. Or a way to see variables without collections.
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Variable Collection Deletion: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/api-client-test-world-soullinkHistory
Hey there SoulLink, this is fixed, but please note for now that any variables that are orphaned will remain so, so you'll need to use different keys for the creation of new variables.
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