No way to check whether identity has a pseudonym without creating pseudonym

[Sjoerd Kerkstra]

There is an unwanted schroedingers behaviour in the current PIMS API. By querying whether an identity has a pseudonym, you create that pseudonym.

There should be an API endpoint to get a yes or no answer without creating pseudonym. This is important when doing larger scale operations on legacy archives. You don't always want to create pseudonyms for everything you query.

[Sjoerd Kerkstra]

Ralph says this will be fixed in PIMS 2

[Sjoerd Kerkstra]

Fixed in version 2 of PIMS, pimsclient. Use KeyFile().exists(): https://github.com/sjoerdk/pimsclient/blob/v2.0.0/examples/check_identity_existence.py