On 12/12/2008, at 8:18 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
Well, you could always return an error if truncation is needed. I think doing the MD5 stuff is a little OTT.
IMO returning an error is just pushing a desire to avoid work (once) onto every single user, who has to understand an additional error opportunity. Anyone dealing with meta-apps has to validate and/or check for that error. Someone has to document that an error can be thrown.
Why not just do the MD5 and be done with it - erlang:md5(Data) -> Digest ? You remove any limit on the name of a design document, or, for that matter, a database (well, it can't be empty, but then that isn't a name, and obeys 0,1,∞). I think you've already agreed that URL encoding is a good idea, so this is hardly much effort.
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