html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/4837#issuecomment-765064046,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/4837,765064046,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc2NTA2NDA0Ng==,1217238,2021-01-22T02:07:07Z,2021-01-22T02:07:07Z,MEMBER,"> Related: There's some weirdness about `_to_temp_dataset` not preserving `name`.

It _used_ to preserve name, but now `name` is always set to the `_THIS_ARRAY` object. This is for two reasons:

1. It isn't always possible to convert a DataArray into a Dataset preserving `name`, if `name` is also found on a coordinate.
2. To ensure that xarray functions always work, even in this case, it was more reliable to _always_ replace the name. If we only replaced `name` in case (1), then it's likely that some functions wouldn't handle names of that form and would produce an error only in that case.

> To the extent the goal is ""apply a function that takes a dataset to this dataarray"", we could make a function that does exactly that and use `_to_temp_dataset` within that. Does that make sense?

This sounds like a fine idea to me. It's kind of the opposite of `Dataset.map`.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,791277757