Unlike many code fields in Smart Materials, units are not restricted to uppercase. Because this is not necessarily supported by all software outside Smart Materials, units are processed as follows:
First, the software tries to find the unit that is passed. If this unit is not found, the software tries to find the unit using uppercase in the comparison.
Examples
|
Unit in the database |
Unit passed to the API |
Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
kg |
kg |
Unit is found directly |
|
KG |
kg |
Unit is found because of compare using uppercase |
|
kg |
KG |
Unit is found because of compare using uppercase |