On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am ok with the change but I don't quite understand the rationale. So a
> few questions, and excuse the ignorance here.
>
> 1. What is the significance of switching from UID to UUID? Is the former
> only unique to the host it is generated on?
>
UID is unique only within the host, UUID is globally unique.
2. What is the significance of dropping the class name prefix? Is that so
> it can more easily be parsed by other tools using UUIDs?
>
Correct, no need to setup particular string parsing rules to extract the
UUID out of the string
>
> Like you say there is no external contract for the id's other than they be
> unique inside of geoServer so i am fine with the change, but just want to
> clarify my understanding. Although having the classname as a prefix is nice
> to provide a bit of context to the identifier as to know what type of
> object it is referencing. Although admittedly I don't spend too much time
> looking at catalog object id's out in the wild in isolation.
>
Yeah, me neither. Also, in some environments setting up the config by hand
is (unfortunately) the only allowed option,
and people pull quite some hair trying to understand what the "expected
format" is. A UUID is pretty recognizable instead.
Cheers
Andrea
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