Open bobbilee19 opened 1 year ago
More context from Diane...
contextId
is common across an entire tree. it’s determined by the root record of the tree
a child of the root will have parentId
=== root.recordId
=== contextId
so it happens for children of the root record
parentId
, contextId
, and recordId
are all CIDs, so they always look similar
Diane...
contextId
:This is a tough one to express succinctly if it hasn't already been established that records within a protocol form a number of trees. Each contextId refers to one of those trees. When a new top-level "root" record is written, it starts a new tree. The contextId is recordId of the root record. All descendants of a given root record have the same contextId.
Personally, I would just assume the reader has some knowledge that dwn protocols form trees of records and that they learned this a previous page of documentation. If this isn't covered in our docs on protocols, we should update those.
parentId
: Also, I'm not sure how literal you mean to get with your example values. For recordIds, we're using CIDs, specifically CBOR + SHA256. I just used this test fixture to generate one randomly.