Re: Unique IDs [WAS:Re: bugfix or enhancement? losing scheduler jobs after paste, rename url]

[Andreas Hartmann <an...@apache.org>]

J. Wolfgang Kaltz wrote:
> Andreas Hartmann schrieb:
> 
>> Michael Wechner wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I think you can still store the documents in a structured way, but 
>>> each document
>>> has a unique ID which is mapped onto the path within the 
>>> hierarchy/structure, e.g. by
>>> hashmap. This unique ID (uid) is then being used within the Scheduler 
>>> or for references
>>> for instance and not the path itself.
> 
> 
> IMO this is mostly a usability problem at document creation time. Right 
> now when the user creates a new document in the default publication, she 
> has to guess a document id which does not exist in this branch. This is 
> not ideal but still acceptable, as typically there will only be a few 
> documents within that branch. But if we want the user to provide a 
> publication-wide unique id at creation, Lenya will need to propose such 
> an id in the creation mask (a sort of auto-increment).

IMO the unique ID should be opaque to the user.
It can be auto generated on document creation and doesn't have to be
human-readable.

-- Andreas


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Re: Unique IDs [WAS:Re: bugfix or enhancement? losing scheduler jobs after paste, rename url]

[Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com>]

Andreas Hartmann wrote:

>
> IMO the unique ID should be opaque to the user.
> It can be auto generated on document creation and doesn't have to be
> human-readable.


right, whereas we used the timestamp which gives it a certain meaning.

Michi

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> -- Andreas
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