GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652807
Add a method to return a Persona UID which is useful for external references to an Individual
Last modified: 2012-07-18 22:42:47 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #652660 +++ Change it to be a stable hash of the UIDs of the personas in the individual's persona set. Advise clients that the ID may change over time if the individual is subsequently linked to another individual. Advise that they should use the most relevant persona's UID instead if they want the link to persist over time (e.g. when tagging photos). Cloned: > + * instead. For example, if storing references to Individuals who are tagged > + * in a photo, it may be safer to store the UID of the Persona whose backend > + * provided the photo (e.g. Facebook). > > We should provide a utility function for this. Letting applications run wild > with their own heuristic seems like trouble waiting to happen. > > (This is the reason for the needs-work review status) As discussed at the hackfest, we'll defer this until someone actually wants to use such an API and we have a real life use case to test.
Philip, This is exactly the same bug as the one the zeitgeist guys wanted that we closed until further asked for, right? If so we should close this also unless someone specifically asks for it in my opinion.
(In reply to comment #1) > This is exactly the same bug as the one the zeitgeist guys wanted that we > closed until further asked for, right? Pretty much. The documentation for Individual.id already includes a note about this, so I agree that the bug can be closed until someone asks for it.