[Opensim-dev] EstateID from uint to UUID

[Melanie]

Estate IDs are not shared between installations. They don't need to 
be Guid/UUID. That would just break pretty much everyone's web 
frontends and also mess wirth the client.

-1

Melanie


Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
> I think this is a valuable discussion to have. My view is that all object
> identifiers ought to be UUIDs as UUID type is developed specifically for
> that with bullet broof unique id generation algorithm where as all other id
> generation algorithms are either database specific or fail if you have
> distributed service or both. If we want to prepare for distributing all our
> systems then aiming for purely UUID based identification is a good step
> forward. In understand that in practice it might be a very long time before
> we can reach a point where all identifiers are of UUID type but if we
> consider this to be a design principle then the resolution is immediately
> valid for any new implementations we do.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
> 
>> Estate ID is a purely local concept that is likely to vanish in
>> newer viewers and the Hypergrid. There is no point in creating a
>> double-lookup scenario.
>> There is nothing that says that all objects must be GUID and no
>> point in refactoring for refactoring's sake.
>>
>> Melanie
>>
>>
>> Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > LL viewer quirks we must conform to but as with many other objects the
>> > primary key could be uuid and uint based id is kept around for ll viewer
>> > compatibility? Maybe it gets too messy in the end to be worth the
>> trouble.
>> > One can consider it once we get to have custom viewers which are not
>> leashed
>> > by SL protocol limitations.
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > Tommi
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> the estate id _is_ a uint. It is not a UUID and was never meant to
>> >> be a UUID. The client sends and expects a UINT.
>> >>
>> >> Melanie
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Tommi Laukkanen wrote:
>> >> > Hello
>> >> >
>> >> > I am working on Estate NHibernate storage and noticed that EstateID is
>> >> still
>> >> > of uint type where as most of other objects have been converted to
>> UUID
>> >> > identifiers. Is anyone interested in tackling this refactoring from
>> uint
>> >> to
>> >> > UUID. Its not a small job but it would make the database much cleaner.
>> >> >
>> >> > regards,
>> >> > Tommi
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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