Hi, indeed you can use numbers or a guid. Just keep in mind that tooling 
(swagger-ui or codegen) may need to coerce that string to something appropriate 
(i.e. you can’t typically have hyphens in a method name for client SDKs).

Also… since that field is optional you can choose to not supply it at all—then 
the consumer has to invent something on its’ own.

> On Sep 27, 2016, at 1:22 AM, jmls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> thanks for the reply, Tony
> 
> can I just clarify something : you said " you should have unique numbers for 
> all operationId values" , so does that mean a guid / uuid would be acceptable 
> ? If so, how do you *name* the endpoint ?
> 
> This is perhaps where my confusion is coming from. I completely understand 
> the requirement for operationId to be unique, but is there a name / nickname 
> / alias property I can use to name the method ? I've only seen an operationid 
> containing a "meaningful" (ie getPet) value rather than a number / id / guid 
> etc
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 03:08:56 UTC+1, tony tam wrote:
> Hi, you should have unique numbers for all operationId values.  If the tools 
> work, it doesn’t make it right—it just means they’re being lenient.  They 
> could throw errors but the authors have decided to gracefully handle the 
> error in the spec.
> 
>> On Sep 24, 2016, at 11:05 AM, jmls <jul...@ <>dotr.com <http://dotr.com/>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey all
>> 
>> Been looking through the v2 specification (http://swagger.io/specification/ 
>> <http://swagger.io/specification/>) , and came across this statement:
>> 
>> operationId: Unique string used to identify the operation. The id MUST be 
>> unique among all operations described in the API. Tools and libraries MAY 
>> use the operationId to uniquely identify an operation, therefore, it is 
>> recommended to follow common programming naming conventions.
>> 
>> I am slightly confused about this : 
>> 
>> if I have 2 models (Customer and Order) does this mean that a "find" method 
>> must be unique across both, or just within the model ? (ie is the API the 
>> model or all models ? )
>> 
>> So I tried an experiment: I have 2 operationId's of "find" : 1 on the 
>> customer and one on the order
>> 
>> I then ran swagger codegen and it didn't complain about uniqueness. 
>> 
>> I then added *another* "find" to the Customer model, and this time codegen 
>> did complain about non-unique operationid's - and renamed it to find_1
>> 
>> So - is swagger-codegen wrong, or are operationId's unique within a model 
>> and not the whole API ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
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