creating new IDs

[eroux]

@xristy I'm designing the system to create new IDs, and before I commit to a solution, can you tell me how the DLMS creates new IDs?

[xristy]

The DLMS Editor has two user properties:

• prefix - such as 1KG, 99CT, or 14GS
• counter - which can be initialized to any int >= 0

each time the editor needs an id it concatenates type+prefix+counter and then counter++.

Since the user may have multiple editor installs care must be taken to ensure that prefixes don't clash. In the old days there were so few editor users that ensuring prefixes didn't clash among users was pretty much simply by using the user's initials.

Obviously with a web-based editor this sort of approach is much easier to manage at the server.

[eroux]

ah yes, thanks! the approach will need to be adapted indeed...

[xristy]

I forgot to mention that the DLMS convention required at least one digit between the type and the letters so that it would be easy to add type ids unambiguously.

The use of the initials of the user was a simple way to see who created the id w/o checking the record