[Zope3-Users] zope.intid and UUIDs

[David Pratt]

I like this idea of abstracting the code for ids myself. It will be 
interesting to hear what others have to say. Can you advise whether the 
UUID utility will be ZPL licensed since this is important if you are 
talking about something with generic functionality for z3. Many thanks.

Regards,
David

Derek Richardson wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've decided to go ahead and write an RFC 4122 UUID utility based on 
> zope.intid (this is for a Plone SoC project, but this bit is pure Zope 
> 3). I wrote most of it today and there is more code shared between the 
> two than is different. The main differences are:
> 
> * OOBTrees, instead of an IOBTree and an OIBTree
> * Different events are fired when an object is registered and 
> unregistered (they could be merged, but this is easy 
> backwards-compatibility)
> * _generateId() is, of course, different
> 
> The rest is pretty much copied and pasted, even most of the tests.
> 
> My question is: should the common parts be abstracted out into a 
> framework for id utilities, of which intid and uuid will be two 
> instantiations? I know this is a small amount of code but:
> 
> * I hate copy and paste
> * I hate the idea of bugs in two places (implicit coupling, from a bug 
> fixer's perspective)
> * Larger codebases mean more to read to understand what is going on for 
> newbies, like me
> 
> Of course, the duplication rule is "If you do it three times, you're 
> doing it wrong" and I've only done it the second time. So, part of this 
> question is whether anyone can see a future need for any id utilities 
> other than intid and uuid. If so, I think this would definitely be a 
> good move. Otherwise, I'm up in the air.
> 
> Of course, this would be a change to zope core, which is the main reason 
> I'm leery. I will be sending in my contributor agreement tomorrow. So, 
> I'm really wondering whether this is worth changing in the core or 
> whether we shouldn't bother.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Derek
> 
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