Support non-integer component IDs about watermodels.jl HOT 4 CLOSED

In all infrastructure model packages component ids are ints. The "name" and "source_id" fields can be used for non-int component ids.

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Thanks! I guess source_id is what I was after. To be sure, you would recommend assigning integer IDs (index values) at the time the file is read?

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Also, is there any convention for assigning index values? Do you use any sort method on the source_id values before assigning them?

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At the moment the int id convention is as follows: if the source data uses integer ids, use these ids as our ids. If not, we number the components from 1 to n based on the order they appear in the file. At least in power network data most tables have a natural table interoperation so 1 to n is analogous to row id in the table.

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