[Zope3-Users] RFC 4122 UUIDs
Stephan Richter
srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Wed Apr 4 13:21:58 EDT 2007
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 13:06, Derek Richardson wrote:
> I am hoping that Zope 3 assigns an RFC 4122 UUID to each content item.
> If not, I am hoping there is a third-party product to do this.
No there is neither. We have an intid utility that guarantees System-wide
unique ids. This utility is used at several places most notably the catalog.
> I would like RFC 4122 UUIDs to provide standard Atom feeds of Zope
> content [1].
>
> It will be better if Zope itself assigns UUIDs, so that there is a
> single source and not a possibility of multiple packages assigning
> different UUIDs to the same content item.
You have to write your own utility to generate the UUID. I checked the RFC
quickly and our IntIds are certainly not of the format requested by RFC 4122.
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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