Re: [Zope] Unique ID generation

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote:

Try adding the following to your ZClass add method:

<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ts', ZopeTime())"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('id', _.str(_.int(ts)))">

This will use the ZopeTime() as the id of your instance. I doubt you can add them faster enough to get the same one twice. :-)

When you add instances programatically, than you can add 2 in 1 second without doubt. I use this python code: def genId(client, namespace, prefix=''): no=int(client.ZopeTime()) while namespace.hasattr(client, prefix+str(no)): no=no+1 return prefix+str(no) ololo@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl, oleks@helper.pl /--------------------------------------\ | `long long long' is too long for GCC | \--------------------------------------/