behavior when target globs overlap about graphite-web HOT 4 CLOSED

also without format=json (i.e. rendering a png), it's shown twice.

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Of course it will appear twice, you've included it twice in your targets definitions. The targets are independent lists of timeseries deduplicating the final result would make no sense since your inner target definitions may have different outer functions. This is not a bug.

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but all applied functions are part of the name, so I'm basically suggesting deduplicating based on the entire target strings (including all function definitions) which is safe.
if we stick with the current behavior then I don't see any way to leverage the globbing without having duplicates, in case there is overlap (like the example above). the only way to avoid duplicates would be listing all series individually (possibly fetching a list from graphite first, parsing it, etc)

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It doesn't work like that since the containing function could return different results depending on the series list it contains. What you are asking for is just not doable. Targets are independent from one another. If you'd like to ensure that you don't have duplicate entries from overlapping matches then either come up with a better naming/organizing scheme, or use symlinks to organize your targets on the back end to make them available through a more sensible target description.

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