Ian Eslick wrote:
A few clarifications:
It is poor coding practice to use system-assigned OIDs. In future
versions of elephant OIDs may change over time due to GC, auto
recovery of oid space, etc. It's sort of like using the physical
address of an object in a C++ program. There is a legitimate way to
use OIDs outside of elephant, but we haven't yet defined an interface
for users to do so (for example you might want to use OIDs to create
many-to-many maps or efficient persistent sets)
When can we expect this legitimate interface? And if it is not expected
soon, do you have a favorite hack? I have wanted foreign references to
persistent objects in the past, and I suspect other users run into
situations, too.
Ian
Red
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