Hi Phil, Phil Steitz wrote on Sunday, April 03, 2005 7:57 PM:
> Last night I added the "prefixed" identifier generators > contributed by Michael Heuer in BZ 34254 (Thanks, Michael!). > These made me think again of something that we discussed a > while back: composite identifiers. The prefixed identifiers > could be viewed as composites of a "constant" identifier on > the front followed by an alpha/alphanumeric. (Admitedly a > degenerate case, which is why I just added the classes as submitted.) > > I don't have immediate need for these things myself, but I am > wondering if other people do. Composition could take the form > of concatenation, hashing, or anything else that users want > to do with results from a List of identifiers in the > composite. An abstract base class might provide access to > the List and a cache of most recent constituent identifier results. > > Thoughts? Just a short feedback. In one of my implementations I have use a prefix for one generated id myself, and another id is a concatenation of a UUID with an additional id. Although both situations can be solved with the existing commons-id functionality, special support for composite ids might be deifnately handy. - J�rg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
