[occi-wg] Syntax of OCCI API

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Here is the solution I use and have used in the past. I have created
UUIDS of the form <My-name>-<location>-<my-id>. So long as we aren't
sticking to a particular format for UUIDs this would work (and has).

Chuck Wegrzyn


Sam Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Randy Bias <randyb at gogrid.com
> <mailto:randyb at gogrid.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The only downside of UUIDs is they aren’t people-friendly.  For
>     example, trying to remember or type in and verify a UUID by eye is
>     very error-prone.  So if you were a sysadmin writing some bourne
>     shell scripts to help with automation or just using some command
>     line tools, it’s going to be painful.  You can imagine:
> 
>         clitool –delete disk –disk-id
>     <some-really-long-uuid-string-is-here> -server
>     <another-really-long-uuid-string-is-here> ...
>     <yet-another-really-long-uuid-string>
> 
>     Another example would be listings of any kind.  If strewn with UUIDs
>     they are going to be super hard for people to parse visually.
> 
>     I’d prefer that folks use UUIDs internally, that we have the spec
>     say string(256) for most identifiers, and that providers can choose
>     to use UUIDs or something more friendly (e.g. the canonical AMI id:
>     ami-abcd1234) as appropriate.
> 
> 
> This is something I had considered too but it runs counter to the "great
> global grid" use case. I don't think moving away from UUIDs for the core
> is sensible (if you give people enough rope they /will/ hang themselves,
> as they have proven time and time again)...
> 
> But, if the category/tagging functionality does not satisfy this use
> case then my suggestion would be to assign optional aliases to
> frequently used resources (e.g. Amazon's "small", "medium" and "large"
> templates). This would add implementation headaches (e.g. having to
> implement a central registry which would need to be available at
> creation time) but write operations would be few and far between (at
> least compared to normal operations).
> 
> So for tags/categories you have:
> 
> http://example.com/-/linux/web (to retrieve all linux web servers you
> have access to)
> 
> And for aliases you might have:
> 
> http://example.com/myserver (rather than a long, ugly UUID)
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
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