We used to use UUIDs but at some point this was refactored. I tend to agree with you.
Actually, I would prefer it to be configurable. We have code in place for ID generation of various types: UUIDs, short UUIDs, and sequentials. All of them would seem useful to me for various scenarios. On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Vaishnavi K.R <vaishnavi....@ericsson.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > With my understanding in current ARIA, the node instances are made unique > by prefixing the node name with the 'id of the service' (i.e. the primary > key of the service table) as the instances are specific to the service. > > > What will be the name of the node instances if the default instances for > the node template is '3' and how this will hold good during scale in and > out? > > > Could UUID be of great help in handling such cases by including that as a > column in the database tables of the service and the node? > > This will wipe out the naming confusions and querying can be made easy > with the UUIDs. > > > Looking forward to your suggestion. > > > Thanks, > > /Vaish >