On 23/08/2016 11:38, Sagar wrote:
And there is no link up with myExpermiment API's workflow's id. If
there is no link up then how can I get to know that this is this workflow
like if I open this URL(http://139.59.28.12:3000/workflows.json). I get
workflow's id as 1 but in myExperiment's API, it is 824. If I search on the
basis of the name of workflow then there is the chance of multiple
workflows as you can see on this URL(
http://www.myexperiment.org/search?query=Fetch+today%27s+xkcd+comic&commit=Go
).
There's really no reason for an ID on one site to be the same as an ID
for equivalent content on another site. Indeed, there's a real sense in
which the ID can be considered to be a whole URL, and not just a small
number (because what does “42” mean? It depends who you ask and in what
context.) Because of that, it's important to store the whole identifier.
Also, knowing when two URLs are equivalent is really amazingly hard, so
don't worry about it and stick with plain old string comparison. While
it isn't right, it's not right in a way that is predictable and easy for
everyone to work with, which is still pretty good.
Typically, the way you handle workflows in a repository having the same
name despite being different is by *showing more information*. This
might be some of the description, a picture, or the link (or a
combination of the above) depending on exactly what the UI capabilities
available at that point are. Like that, the user will be able to decide
for themselves. That's a really good idea in practice, since users (and
myself ;-)) don't always give perfectly descriptive titles to things.
Hope this helps
Donal.
