+1. I have actually needed this functionality on other projects and had to
roll out a method to do exactly this.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking into some REST API improvements and I see there are a few
> places where unique names should be autogenerated - in the data upload
> handling we create a new layer and need to ensure it doesn't have a name
> clash with other layers in the same workspace; I'd also like to have an
> option for the data upload to generate a new style, which is also subject
> to naming conflicts. I was looking at the code in DataStoreFileResource
> and I see that it just tries all the possible suffixes from 1 to 10 and
> gives up if that doesn't work (see line 393 and on for the details.) Might
> be nice for it to try a bit harder (maybe fetch all layers with the
> requested name as a prefix and do something smart with the results?)
>
> It also seems like this would be a useful thing to abstract out - I'm
> thinking of adding a method like
>
> class CatalogBuilder {
> public String uniqueName(WorkspaceInfo workspace, String requestedName,
> Class<? extends ResourceInfo> resourceType)
> }
>
> which would handle that logic in a more centralized location. Any
> thoughts?
>
> This is relevant to at least these tickets:
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2635
> https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-5057
>
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