[Qgis-developer] Composer item's IDs

[Nathan Woodrow]

Personally I'm not a fan of using a uuid unless the user doesn't need to
enter them.

For me a composer item only needs a id or name not both.  You can just
store a counter on the composer the item belongs to as only has to be
unique for that composer. I would just auto name them "composeritem_n" and
have the composer assign the name/id when the item is added to the
composer. If the user wants to change it later he can.

- sent from a tablet device that isn't an iPad
On 19 Feb 2013 10:38, "Olivier Dalang" <olivier.dalang at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK I've got something which seems to work well using QUuid.
> It's easier with QUuid than an incremental id since there's no need to
> store the last key.
>
> It already works more or less, I'll make a pull request soon.
>
> What do you think about the other attribute ? (which would be called
> smthg like "Internal name", and would replace current id's behavior)
> I'm not sure this is useful though. Maybe it will only be confusing to
> the user...
>
> Should I add this attribute or not ?
>
>
>
> 2013/2/18 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
> > Olivier,
> >
> > I added the item id for that reason. Feel free to rework then so they
> > are auto generated and unique. That was my intention just never got
> > around to it.
> >
> > - Nathan
> >
> > Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo
> > From: Olivier Dalang
> > Sent: 19/02/2013 3:27 AM
> > To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: [Qgis-developer] Composer item's IDs
> > Hi !
> >
> > I'm developing a plugin which needs to attach some custom data to some
> > Composer Item's instances.
> > Thus, I need a way to identify the instances.
> >
> > I saw that there's an ID attribute in the ComposerItems, but don't
> > really know how it's supposed to work. It seems for now it's only an
> > user defined value, which remains empty when the user doesn't provide
> > it and which also can be duplicated.
> > So it seems I can't use this as an unique ID.
> >
> > What's the best way to do that ?
> >
> >
> > More globally, what is this ID good for ? Is it's behavior not fully
> > implemented yet ?
> >
> > I think it would be useful to auto-assign unique which the user
> > couldn't change. If needed, another attribute ("name" or "tag") could
> > be added to replace the current "ID" behaviour, allowing the user to
> > define custom data.
> >
> > What do you think ?
> >
> > Thanks !!
> >
> > Olivier
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