[Zope] Unique ID's ?

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:19:30 -0500


You could use the 'thread safe counter' product, it's part of ZopeGUD, used
for a similar purpose in there.

> From: Philippe Jadin <philippe@123piano.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:08:10 +0100
> To: zope <zope@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope] Unique ID's ?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After some deep searches about the subject, I found that zope has no
> real unique ID's.
> 
> For a particular application (where we can't use the object "url" as an
> ID as ojects will move), I'd like to assign a unique_id property to each
> object whenever they are added (the ID must be really really unique).
> 
> Is there already a patch that do that ? Is there a reason why zope
> doesn't provide this facility?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Philippe
> 
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