Le 2011-05-25 à 13:55, Pascal Robert a écrit :

> I'm trying to find a way to generate a HTTP ETag for EOs so that caching can 
> be done for REST services. What I want to do is to have the same ETag value 
> for each representation of the EO, so when one of the values change, the ETag 
> value will also change, but if the EO have the same value, it will generate 
> the same ETag as another request got.
> 
> Problem is: I don't know what to use. I tried with myEO.hashCode() but I did 
> some tests and every time I fetch the EO, the hashcode is different even if 
> the data didn't change. I'm thinking of doing a MD5 digest of part of the EO, 
> but I was wondering if another way exist?

myEO.snapshotDictionary().hashCode() ?
That would be based on the attributes values only.
hmmm ... not sure how it would deal with relationship though (with regards to 
faulting).


> I could use a "last modified" date and generate a MD5 of that too, but that 
> date is a better option for the Last-Modified header.


jfv

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