Re: Implementing "Create Topic" [was: Identical UMO titles in UU]

[sergey@total-knowledge.com]

The reasons are:
1. No need to pass any umo_content_id throughout all site.
2. No need to run an additional query on UMO creation to get
umo_content_id by umo_id.


> Once again - can anybody tell me why a combination of parent id and data
> makes more sense than object id?
> You're going to edit or update an object, and object id uniquely
> identifies
> that object. A combination of parent object id and object data does not
> (in
> general case).
> This is a universal approach. It's simpler, it's faster, it's more
> reliable.
>
>
> 2007/4/27, sergey@total-knowledge.com <sergey@total-knowledge.com>:
>>
>> My opinion is: stored procedures should deal with UMO content IDs
>> internally. Combination of umo_id + lang_id is good enough to correctly
>> identify UMO content. I added language dropdowns on topic create/edit
>> pages and now it makes perfect sense.
>> I dealt with JSP online stores which used multiple languages for
>> category/product names and descriptions. For the same category query
>> string contained the same category_id no matter which language_id was
>> used. I think we should do the same.
>>
>>
>> > BTW, default language is always 1. You probably mean - preferred
>> language.
>> > I
>> > probably should add such function - it may become handy:
>> >
>> > current_user_language_id()
>> >
>> > 2007/4/27, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Alexey Parshin wrote:
>> >> > I wouldn't worry about it too much. Any object should be identified
>> by
>> >> ID.
>> >> Internally - yes :)
>> >> > This is the basic requirement. The ID itself is meaningless, but it
>> >> > allows to avoid any problems with object identification.
>> >> > BTW,  I don't see how identifying a content with topic ID and
>> language
>> >> > is less exposing than identifying it with content ID.
>> >> Not as-is, but if, let's say, you wanted to be able to refer to
>> default
>> >> topic_content by passing
>> >> null for a language (since the one with default language has a
>> special
>> >> meaning), you could
>> >> do it with my way of identification, but not with yours... In your
>> case,
>> >> UI would have to first
>> >> explicitly find out what default language is, and then retrieve
>> relevant
>> >> content object.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
>> >> Total Knowledge. CTO
>> >> http://www.total-knowledge.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alexey Parshin,
>> > http://www.sptk.net
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Alexey Parshin,
> http://www.sptk.net
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