[ckan-dev] Specification of data processing web services.

Toby Dacre toby.okfn at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 16:33:31 UTC 2012


On 14 June 2012 17:20, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Any sensible automated task would *never* send a uuid as, as you say the
> > service could throw an error so why risk it?
> >
>
> Knowing the id upfront is very useful (you can store you sent
> something out, before you sent it), and I thought the point of the
> uuid that the chance of a collision was so low that it was worth the
> risk. It could be worth the requester namespacing the uuid with the
> its domain name to make it more unlikely but that is most likely
> overkill.  I think the complication of 2 references is not worth the
> tradeoff.
>

it's nice for me to give a reference for something maybe it's my table id
or for the use you suggest

anyhow I think that's useful but for a prototype it's not an issue just get
it right before you release a non-beta version




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