+1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > nowadays all CatalogInfo objects identifier is generated by using the object > type plus a local UID: > > String uid = new UID().toString(); > OwsUtils.set( o, "id", o.getClass().getSimpleName() + "-"+uid ); > > I'm looking into a user case where it would be beneficial, instead, to use a > plain UUID, that is, > something like: > > String uuid = UUID.newRandomUUID().toString(); > OwsUtils.set( o, "id", uuid); > > The rationale for the change lies in organizations that have several > GeoServer installed > and in use, by different departments, controlled by different people, and > running different > versions (the case I'm looking at has 20+ GeoServer installations maintained > under separate > admins, with no short term opportunity to consolidate them in a single > install that has > the same version and plugin set for everybody). > > To provide a little management to the above situation they want to at least > have a > centralized catalog that contains info about all the servers, a catalog that > uses > RDF style triplets instead of the classic Geonetwork harvesting. > > Each GeoServer would then be equipped with a simple catalog listener that > informs the central > catalog about new layers, in such a way that renames do not affect the > central system, > thus the idea to use UUIDs to identify each layer. > Those could be generated by a separate plugin and stored in the metadata map > of each > CatalogInfo object, but it would be just simpler if the ids were UUIDs in > the first place. > > Since we never advertised the GeoServer internal ID format it would not be a > breaking change, > and in fact all that we want is uniqueness, not a particular format. > Switching to UUID would also be helpful in situation where we have a > GeoServer cluster in > multi-master configuration, as it would ensure the different masters cannot > come up with > the same ID for different objects. > > The change would affect only trunk. > > Opinions? > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Ing. Andrea Aime > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Tech lead > > Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 > 55054 Massarosa (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584 962313 > fax: +39 0584 962313 > mob: +39 339 8844549 > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime > http://twitter.com/geowolf > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >
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