[Developers] id versus guid

[John Giannandrea]

The id's are intended to be very stable, while providing a level
of indirection from the underlying guid.
If a topic is merged or renamed then both ids would still exist.

Over time we expect to provide several namespaces and
they might have different policies or longevity, but for now
/topic/en is the most stable and its write controlled.

-jg


On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:09 PM, Christopher Dummy wrote:

> If I want to make sure I'm getting the same object, should I save off
> the "id" or the "guid". I see that the "id" can sometimes be the topic
> name, like:
>
>  http://www.freebase.com/view/engadget_podcast
>
> I just wasn't sure how well I could depend on the "id" staying the
> same. Or if the "id" might change (ie, renamed, or spelling
> correction, or some other unknown), and in that case I would want to
> really store the "guid" to remember the correct object.
>
> What are the cases when the "id" would change?
>
> -- 
> Christopher Cotton
> Zing/Dell Engineer
> http://zing.net/
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