Aliases in catalog/TIMESERIES

[mdstanfill]

I see that catalog/TIMESERIES can return a list of aliases for a given time series, but I'm having a couple of issues with it.

Primarily, it doesn't seem to return a timeseries if you ask for it by an alias, e.g.:

curl -X 'GET' \
  'https://wm.nwp.ds.usace.army.mil:8243/nwdp-data-314rc4/catalog/TIMESERIES?office=NWDP&like=DET_S1-D20ft.Temp-Water.%2ABest' \
  -H 'accept: application/json;version=2'

doesn't find DET_S1-D20ft.Temp-Water.Inst.0.0.Best, an alias for DET_S1-D20ft.Temp-Water.Inst.0.0.MIXED-REV, instead returning:

{
  "entries": [],
  "page-size": 500,
  "total": 0
}

Additionally, (of no immediate concern, but for informational purposes), even if I ask for MIXED-REV, it doesn't show Best as an alias. E.g.:

curl -X 'GET' \
  'https://wm.nwp.ds.usace.army.mil:8243/nwdp-data-314rc4/catalog/TIMESERIES?office=NWDP&like=DET_S1-D20ft.Temp-Water.%2AMIXED-REV' \
  -H 'accept: application/json;version=2'

returns

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "office": "NWDP",
      "name": "DET_S1-D20ft.Temp-Water.Inst.0.0.MIXED-REV",
      "units": "C",
      "interval": "0",
      "interval-offset": -2147483648,
      "time-zone": "US/Pacific",
      "extents": [
        {
          "earliest-time": "2010-06-02T20:00:00Z",
          "last-update": "2024-07-17T22:42:48.548Z",
          "latest-time": "2024-07-17T22:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "page-size": 500,
  "total": 1
}

with no aliases attribute.

[rma-rripken]

The Location Catalog does do something with the aliases but the Timeseries Catalog does not. The entries in the the Timeseries Catalog results do not have a field to hold aliases and the queries do not attempt to specifically include or exclude them.