8-byte oids

[Jim Fulton]

IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters.  Lots of ZODB
infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes.  I'm tempted to say that
oids must be 8-byte strings. Does anyone see a problem with this?

Jim

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[Shane Hathaway]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
> 8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters.  Lots of ZODB
> infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes.  I'm tempted to say that
> oids must be 8-byte strings.

+1.  The simplified standard promotes interoperability.

> Does anyone see a problem with this?

I don't anymore.

Shane
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[Christian Theune-2]

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On 08/13/2009 10:42 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
>> 8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters.  Lots of ZODB
>> infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes.  I'm tempted to say that
>> oids must be 8-byte strings.
>
> +1.  The simplified standard promotes interoperability.

The difference to the spec before would be that previously strings with
less than 8 bytes were allowed?


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[Christian Theune-2]

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On 08/14/2009 08:36 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

> On 08/13/2009 10:42 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> IPersistent specifies OIDs to be non-empty strings and reserves the
>>> 8-byte OID consisting of 8 null characters.  Lots of ZODB
>>> infrastructure assumes that oids are 8 bytes.  I'm tempted to say that
>>> oids must be 8-byte strings.
>
>> +1.  The simplified standard promotes interoperability.
>
> The difference to the spec before would be that previously strings with
> less than 8 bytes were allowed?

Never mind, reading one of your mails in the other thread actually
cleared this up.

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