Question concerning pattern of ID generation
I am working on a script that interacts with the REST api and I have run into a snag during testing.
There are a few instances where I need to know explicitly with the ID will be generated by TeamCity for specific items (e.g. the VCS root ID). In my simple use cases, I am able to determine what it will be based on the name. For example, if the VCS name is My Repo, the ID will be something like ParentId_MyRepo. I mistakenly assumed a simple removal of whitespace but quickly discovered that "." are also dropped. After more testing, I can see that the Id appears to be a derivitve of the name but the casing can be very weird.
Example:
"test LOWER uPPER 1 abc 1ABC" yeilds -> TestLowerUPPER1abc1abc
It looks like there is an attempt to normalize the casing but I can't quite figure out the rules to re-implement them in code. Can anyone give me insight to the exact rules/patterns that go into the autogenerated IDs? If so, is there a known library that implements these rules?
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