[Solar-talk] Handles or IDs?

[Paul M Jones]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:

> I'm thinking of migrating to using user ids instead of user handles,
> but all Solar classes use handles (strings). Is everyone using just
> handles or is someone using IDs? What do you think, should we keep the
> all the adapters handle based and deal with the problem somehow or try
> to change to using IDs only?

I'm using handles everywhere all the time.

Rodrigo mad e arequest a while back that I implemented: the Auth  
adapters allow you to retrieve a "uid" (if the adapter supports it,  
same thing with "email", "moniker", and "uri").  The "uid" value is a  
"user ID" or "unique ID" depending on how you look at it, but the  
idea is the same: a numeric ID that maps to the handle.  Your various  
table classes can then use a "uid" value instead of a "handle"  
value.  Solar_Auth_Adapter_Sql has an example of this, iirc.

Does that help at all?



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