Global recipe id clarification

Group Phase Specification
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Hello,

Page 19, lines 7-8:

Recipe ids are unique across restaurants.

I want to confirm if the following interpretations are correct:

  1. Recipe ids are global
  2. A recipe object (corresponding to a recipe id) can only be owned by 1 restaurant, i.e. the same recipe id cannot exist in 2 restaurants

Thanks in advance!

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  1. is true
  2. I asked my tutor(@mosc00004 ) yesterday, for normal recipes this is true but for recipes that hold the basicDishFor property it is possible for multiple restaurants to obtain the same recipeId, because by default a recipe with the basicDishFor property is owned by every restaurant with that type
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Hi,

I just confirmed it again, the sentence mentioned in the specification:

Recipe ids are unique across restaurants.

just means, that there is no duplicated recipe allowed in the whole simulation.

More importantly is the next sentence:

Dish names are unique per restaurant

this means that there can be duplicates in the names of the dishes, however they should not be in the same restaurant.

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just for confirmation, so that means that multiple restaurants can reference the same recipeId without it needing to have the basicDishFor property?

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yes that is correct.

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