Dermot, On 04/24/2011 02:19 AM, Dermot McNally wrote:
I see that user names are not provided. Is that for reasons of discretion, volatility or performance?
Two reasons: 1. There's really no elegant mechanism to handle user name changes. An object may have been edited by you while your user name was something else. If you change your user name but don't edit anything, there is no chance for my application to find out about that change through the diffs it consumes; what my application shows would be out of sync with what the API proper gives you (as the API knows about the user name change but I do not). 2. It would increase the size of the return messages by something like 20%.
Both are however not really strong reasons and I could provide user names if these problems are deemed unimportant.
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