Hi Aron, The hex portion of the ID is not globally unique. While the chances are slim that you would get a calendar event and a blog entry (for example) that have the same ID, the possibility exists, hence the need for the full URL.
There are currently no plans to change this behavior so your best bet is to continue using the full resource URL. Cheers, Lane On Apr 17, 3:30 pm, Aron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the IDs - very large hex values - which are included as path > components of the resource URIs returned by Event.getSelfLink(), > Event.getEditLink(), etc. globally unique? Or might they ever be > reused in a Google Calendar context, or perhaps reused in the context > of the much larger GData universe? > > And are these IDs ever meaningful in isolation? That is, can they > ever be used by themselves to refer to and act on GData resources > outside of the context of the full resource URIs in which they are > included? We're noticing that Service.getEntry() requires a resource > URI; is there now or is it contemplated that there may ever be a > parallel call which can, for instance, retrieve a calendar entry using > only the ID value contained in that resource URI? > > We're writing a RESTful wrapper to Google Calendar that, when a > request is made for a resource collection such as selected events on a > calendar, can return a list of event GUIDs that can be used by > subsequent calls. We'd like to know whether we should be returning > the resource URIs, as we're currently doing, or if just the ID values > alone are - or will - ever be usable in isolation. They have the > advantages of being more compact and more similar to GUIDs used by > other calendaring and scheduling systems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
