[Pulp-dev] Pulp api seemingly incompatible with generated bindings

[David Davis]

> If one changes an object's attributes (e.g. UUID), its href doesn't
change.

UUIDs don’t change. In fact, I think UUIDs are truly immutable compared to
hrefs which might change if hostname/port/scheme/deployment path/etc change.


David

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Jeremy Audet <jaudet at redhat.com> wrote:

> > +1. Exposing UUIDs is definitely preferable to using hrefs as ids.  "The
> app just looks at the relative path"  -> what if pulp wants the flexibility
> to change repositories end point (highly improbable but you never know).
>
> Is it better, though? URIs were chosen specifically with immutability in
> mind. "Cool URIs don't change." This is reflected in the application's
> behaviour. If one changes an object's attributes (e.g. UUID), its href
> doesn't change.
>
> And in what case are hostname and port changing? If that's a common
> deployment issue, I would contend that the deployment at hand is screwed up.
>
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