[Zope-dev] Globally Unique Object Ids

[Jim Fulton]

Jason Spisak wrote:
> 
> Zopsters,
> 
> Is there a way to genereate globally unique object ids for use with a
> Zope app. 

Yes. Uh sort of. What do you want to use this for?

> I notices the ZClasses has this sort of thing. 

Right.

> I used to use
> a counter property of the root folder and call an update with creation
> of an object like so, <!--#call
> "PARENTS[-2].manage_changeProperties(counter=counter+1)"-->, but now
> with concurrency that's not *really* safe,

Why not?


Jim

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