[Sugar-devel] automatically naming incremental sugar activity instances

[Erik Blankinship]

Thank you for the thoughtful response.   Could you please remind me where my
activity's persistant storage can be accessed?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:38:58PM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote:
> > If you wanted to [attempt to] automatically name new sugar activity
> > instances incrementally, what is the best technique to do this?
> >
> > The solution I've come up with (not implemented, and not sure it can be
> > implemented): scan the journal, look at all of the existing filenames,
> and
> > then rename the new instance after some analysis?
>
> It might be too expensive...
>
> Personally I'm not sure that it is the right way for common usage.
> More over we already have such identifier:
>
> * object_id, for internal usage
> * date, for user friendly usage.
>
> But you can experiment with setting incremental names on your activity
> side, i.e., just keep current seqno in activity persistent storage and
> increment it every time your create new object.
>
> --
> Aleksey
>
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