Github user ahgittin commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/338 @geomacy I think we want `catalogItemId` explicit as the catalog item ID of the item, in addition to the "hierarchy" (which is maybe better called `catalogItemsSearchPath` ?). It is a separate concept, and feels messy assuming the first in the hierarchy is the ID of the item (would be cleaner IMO to always put the ID of the item at the top of the hierarchy and drop the hierarchy if superfluous). We also need to be able to tell if an item does not have a catalog item ID (but possibly things in a search path from its creation context) eg it was created straight from a java class.
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