[This is mainly a pje question, but I thought I would CC dev in case
anyone else had an opinion]
I realized this morning that we need to solve the following problem:
Any item that is created "out of the box" on a clean repository -- in
other words, every item that is created by an update( ) call within
an installParcel( ) -- should not be dumped. If they are, then we'll
get duplicates the next time a brand new Chandler is run and the data
is reloaded, since the items created via update( ) will have
different UUIDs the second time around. The "Welcome Note" is such
an item; if we dump it, run Chandler with a fresh repo, and reload
the dump, we'll have two such notes.
So I was thinking we could add an attribute to schema.Item called
"is_user_data" or something which has a default value of True.
schema.Item.update( ) would set this to False. Then the code which
invokes the dump translator would skip over any items which don't
have is_user_data == True. In the case where the user does modify
such an "out of the box" item like the default sharing account, we
could then set that item's is_user_data to True and it would get dumped.
Sound good?
~morgen
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