As described in which instrument identifier scheme should I use? LUSID supports unique and non-unique identifiers to reference instruments. This page describes the logic that is applied when you supply a set of these identifiers in one of the APIs which loads data into LUSID.
The following steps are performed in turn until one of them finds a unique instrument.
Step 1: Unique identifiers
Use the unique identifier types that you have configured in LUSID, in the order they appear in the configuration
- If the request contains a value for the identifier and it resolves to an instrument already set up in LUSID, use this instrument.
Step 2: Non-unique identifiers
Use the remaining identifiers specified in the request
- If the identifier resolves to exactly one instrument, use this instrument.
- If it resolves to multiple instruments then ignore this identifier and move onto the next one.
If neither of these steps finds an instrument, then the unknown Instrument is used.