Ok thanks, I'll give it a try then.

On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 4:36:59 PM UTC+1, Andrey Lomakin wrote:
>
> I thought about this as well, however, I think that if I'm using edges 
>> instead of storing the IDs itself (in graph mode), the relationship should 
>> be preserved even after an export/import. Is that right ?
>>
>
> Yes, sure. 
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Bertrand Quenin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> The only issue is that if you do export database to JSON and then back 
>>> your RIDs will be changed.
>>>
>>
>> I thought about this as well, however, I think that if I'm using edges 
>> instead of storing the IDs itself (in graph mode), the relationship should 
>> be preserved even after an export/import. Is that right ?
>>
>>  
>> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 2:28:16 PM UTC+1, Andrey Lomakin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bertran,
>>> The only issue is that if you do export database to JSON and then back 
>>> your RIDs will be changed.
>>> But may be we will add option to keep rids on their places. Not so hard 
>>> to do. 
>>> The only downside of such flag will be presence of holes for rids of 
>>> removed records.
>>> Each record removal consumes about 10 bytes of disk space (not so much 
>>> )) ), but when you do export/import we optimize space is used by database 
>>> as result rids may be changed.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bertrand Quenin <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently using OrientDB for a project at work and I have some 
>>>> question about record IDs.
>>>>
>>>> As far as I understood, record IDs are unique and can be used to to 
>>>> identify a record in a deterministic way. I was wondering if these IDs can 
>>>> be used to identify objects through (REST) APIs.
>>>>
>>>> As any web application, I need to identify objects one way or another 
>>>> and I was wondering what the best approach would be:
>>>> 1/ Using record IDs provided by orient DB
>>>> 2/ Adding a "business" id field to my objects and manage it aside.
>>>>
>>>> So far, I didn't see any reason why I shouldn't use the record ID 
>>>> itself, the only con I see is that RID are strings clusterId#position (and 
>>>> not plain integers) and it's a bit harder to expose in an URL ...
>>>>
>>>> Is there any issue I haven't foresee ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>>
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