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I want to look over this posting more carefully, but I did want to get
one thought out quickly. Please, let's not overload Handles even
more. There are sites, I've heard, that would like to do away with
Handles and use something else for durable universally-unique external
identifiers. That's
Hi Mark:
Thanks for the thoughtful response.
The point about handles was not intended to enshrine that particular ID system;
I meant it as illustrative (persistent IDs, _such as_ handles). I certainly
agree that
a REST API should not enforce any particular scheme, and we have made some
headway
I don't think I'm able to see too far into the future on this (or any) API.
I see it as more a means to an end. This new machine interface will be a
pleasant way to get data out of your repository, repurposed into other
systems. Clients of the API should expect a stable interface for a period
of
Thinking about this a bit more, I've come round to the position that I
don't see why database record IDs are a problem in this context. All
we need to do is to inform people that we explicitly deny long-term
meaning to these identifiers; they should be assumed to have session
scope. If you store
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