"Add suffixes" to schema?

[yarikoptic]

#1049 (and recently merged #1036) inspired me to look at re-used suffixes which ATM might have duplicate and varying specification (in terms of extensions) across different data types:

$> git grep -e '^- suffixes' -A1 -h | grep -v -e 'suffixes' -e -- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -v '^ *1 '
      2   - electrodes
      3   - channels
      3   - coordsystem
      4   - photo
      5   - meg
      6   - events
      7   - physio

NB due to -A1 could be an incomplete list

so I thought that may be such definitions could somehow also be centralized?

and alternative to centralization could be just a unittest which verifies that identical suffixes, which are present in different data types, have identical extensions across datatypes etc?

or may be it is just impossible anyways since some suffixes (like `meg`) might have quite complicated rules (but seems specific to a modality, hence I added "in different data types" above

rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-# First group
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-- suffixes:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml:  - meg
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  extensions:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - /  # corresponds to BTi/4D data
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - .ds/
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - .json
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - .fif
--
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-# Specifically, it's dat files with "acq-calibration"
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-- suffixes:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml:  - meg
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  extensions:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - .dat
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  entities:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-    subject: required
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-    session: optional
--
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-# fif files with "acq-crosstalk"
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-- suffixes:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml:  - meg
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  extensions:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  - .fif
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-  entities:
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-    subject: required
rules/datatypes/meg.yaml-    session: optional

edit: upgraded grep as of v1.7.0-329-gd3429fba

$> git grep -e '^ *suffixes *:' -A1 -h | grep -v -e 'suffixes' -e -- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -v '^ *1 '
      2   - electrodes
      3   - channels
      3   - coordsystem
      3   - meg
      4   - mask
      4   - photo
      4   - probseg
      6   - dseg
      6   - events
      7   - physio

[tsalo]

I believe that this came up at last week's schema meeting, and we were going to look at repurposing #1012 to centralize duplicate suffix patterns across datatypes.

[effigies]

@yarikoptic Would you mind having another look? This has changed significantly:

$ git grep -e ' suffixes:' -A1 -h | grep -v -e 'suffixes' -e -- | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -v '^ *1 '
      2     - sessions
      4     - mask
      4     - probseg
      6     - dseg
      6     - meg