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One of the key properties off of `Topic` is `DerivedTopic`, which points to another topic entity from which the current topic should inherit attribute values, if they're not defined locally. So if I request `topic.Attributes.GetValue("Title")`, it will first search `topic.Attributes`, but then search `topic.DerivedTopic.Attributes`, and so on. The name of this property—and its underlying `AttributeDescriptor` and `ReferenceKey`—is confusing. It's not pointing to a _derived_ topic, but an _inherited_ topic. Unfortunately, the semantics of _inherited_, while more defensible, remain ambiguous, with many sources using the term e.g. "derived class" to refer to the derived class, while others use it to refer to the base class. To mitigate this, I've adopted the term `BaseTopic`. This is similar to Microsoft's popular convention of exposing a property named `Base` to refer to _object_ inheritance. But by adding `Topic` to it, I hope to better distinguish between the local `base` keyword, which refers to _class_ inheritance. I'm not sure that the name alone does that, but it at least makes it more obvious when reading derived classes that `base` and `BaseTopic` are different identifiers, whereas `base` and `Base` could easily be confused. This is an invasive change. In addition to the widespread references to `Topic.DerivedTopic`, the attribute descriptor named `DerivedTopic`, and the `TopicReferences` records with a `ReferenceKey` set to `DerivedTopic`, there are also parameters and variables related to the concept—such as `inheritFromDerived`—plus a lot of comments that allude to the relationship—while other cases of "derived" refer instead to class inheritance, and should be persisted. I've made a careful effort to distinguish and disambiguate these, and hopefully have caught all references.
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‎OnTopic.Data.Sql.Database/Scripts/Upgrade from OnTopic 3 to OnTopic 4.sql‎

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-- INHERIT TYPES
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-- Attribute Descriptors will be converted to more specific content types based on their legacy attribute type. Attribute types
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-- may be inherited from derived topics, however. This script identifies any cases where the attribute type is inherited, and
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-- updates the target topic with the derived value. This may need to be run multiple times if there are multiple layers of
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-- may be inherited from base topics, however. This script identifies any cases where the attribute type is inherited, and
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-- updates the target topic with the inherited value. This may need to be run multiple times if there are multiple layers of
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-- inheritance (e.g., an attribute derives from an attribute which derives from another attribute).
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‎OnTopic.Data.Sql.Database/Scripts/Upgrade from OnTopic 4 to OnTopic 5.sql‎

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-- MIGRATE TOPIC REFERENCES
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-- In OnTopic 5, references to other topics—such as `DerivedTopic`—have been moved from the Attributes table to a new
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-- In OnTopic 5, references to other topics—such as `BaseTopic`—have been moved from the Attributes table to a new
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-- TopicReferences table, where they act more like relationships. This allows referential integrity to be enforced through
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-- foreign key constraints, and formalizes the relationship so we don't need to rely on hacks in e.g. the Topic Data Transer
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-- service to infer which attributes represent relationships in order to translate their values from `TopicID` to `UniqueKey`.
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AND ISNUMERIC(AttributeValue) = 1
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AND Topics.TopicID IS NOT NULL
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-- MIGRATE DERIVED TOPICS
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-- The above migration to topic references includes the DerivedTopic. To better clarify the purpose and intent of that
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-- relationship, we're renaming the attribute from 'DerivedTopic' to 'BaseTopic', and the actual storage field from 'Topic(ID)'
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-- to 'BaseTopic'. This is not only a more accurate identifier, but also unifies the label between the attribute descriptor
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-- and how its 'ReferenceKey'.
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UPDATE TopicReferences
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SET ReferenceKey = 'DerivedTopic'
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SET ReferenceKey = 'BaseTopic'
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WHERE ReferenceKey = 'Topic'
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UPDATE Topics
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SET TopicKey = 'BaseTopic'
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WHERE TopicKey = 'DerivedTopic'
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AND ContentType = 'TopicReferenceAttributeDescriptor'
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-- MIGRATE ATTRIBUTE KEYS
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‎OnTopic.Data.Sql/SqlDataReaderExtensions.cs‎

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/// </param>
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/// <param name="includeExternalReferences">
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/// Optionally disables populating external references such as <see cref="Topic.Relationships"/> and <see
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/// cref="Topic.DerivedTopic"/>. This is useful for cases where it's known that a shallow copy is being retrieved, and
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/// cref="Topic.BaseTopic"/>. This is useful for cases where it's known that a shallow copy is being retrieved, and
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/// thus external references aren't likely to be available.
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/// </param>
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internal static Topic? LoadTopicGraph(

‎OnTopic.TestDoubles/StubTopicRepository.cs‎

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addAttribute(contentTypes, "Key", "TextAttributeDescriptor", false, true);
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addAttribute(contentTypes, "ContentType", "TextAttributeDescriptor", false, true);
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addAttribute(contentTypes, "Title", "TextAttributeDescriptor", true, true);
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addAttribute(contentTypes, "DerivedTopic", "TopicReferenceAttributeDescriptor", false);
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addAttribute(contentTypes, "BaseTopic", "TopicReferenceAttributeDescriptor", false);
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var contentTypeDescriptor = TopicFactory.Create("ContentTypeDescriptor", "ContentTypeDescriptor", contentTypes);
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‎OnTopic.Tests/AttributeValueCollectionTest.cs‎

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/*==========================================================================================================================
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| TEST: GET VALUE: INHERIT FROM DERIVED: RETURNS DERIVED VALUE
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| TEST: GET VALUE: INHERIT FROM BASE: RETURNS INHERITED VALUE
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/// <summary>
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/// Establishes a long tree of derives topics, and ensures that the derived value is returned.
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/// Establishes a long tree of derived topics, and ensures that the inherited value is returned.
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/// </summary>
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[TestMethod]
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public void GetValue_InheritFromDerived_ReturnsDerivedValue() {
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public void GetValue_InheritFromBase_ReturnsInheritedValue() {
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var topic = TopicFactory.Create("Topic" + i, "Container");
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if (i > 0) topics[i - 1].DerivedTopic = topic;
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if (i > 0) topics[i - 1].BaseTopic = topic;
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topics[i] = topic;
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var topic = TopicFactory.Create("Topic" + i, "Container");
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if (i > 0) topics[i - 1].DerivedTopic = topic;
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if (i > 0) topics[i - 1].BaseTopic = topic;
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topics[i] = topic;
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‎OnTopic.Tests/BindingModels/InvalidReferenceTypeTopicBindingModel.cs‎

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public TopicViewModel DerivedTopic { get; } = new();
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public TopicViewModel BaseTopic { get; } = new();
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‎OnTopic.Tests/BindingModels/ReferenceTopicBindingModel.cs‎

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public RelatedTopicBindingModel? BaseTopic { get; set; }
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‎OnTopic.Tests/ReverseTopicMappingServiceTest.cs‎

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Assert.AreEqual<string>("Title", target.DerivedTopic.Key);
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Assert.AreEqual<string>("Title", target.BaseTopic.Key);
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‎OnTopic.Tests/TopicReferenceDictionaryTest.cs‎

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/// Assembles a new <see cref="TopicReferenceDictionary"/> with a <see cref="Topic.BaseTopic"/>, adds a new <see
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‎OnTopic.Tests/TopicRepositoryBaseTest.cs‎

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