[Engine-devel] alias in disk instead of name

[Michael Pasternak]

The problem we caused by using alias in disk instead of name is break of search-by-name paradigm
in engine.search dialect, not sure why we do not want forcing disk name to be unique [1],
but lack of "name" in disk search is does not look good in my view.

thoughts?

[1] can be easily achieved via appropriate can-do-action verification.

background:
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On 10/15/2012 02:09 PM, Einav Cohen wrote:
> we didn't exactly renamed "name" to "alias"; "name" is an automatic identifier of the disk, which is: "Disk n", n=internal drive mapping; "alias" is a *user-defined*
identifier.
>
> IIRC, once we understood that we need a user-defined identifier for the disk business entity, we indeed had in mind re-using "name", however, the "name" field in other
business entities is unique across the system, and we didn't want the disk user-defined identifier to be unique, so we preferred to not (re)use the term "name" and came up
with "alias", to avoid confusion.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Pasternak" <mpastern at redhat.com>
>> To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 1:58:26 PM
>> Subject: alias in disk instead of name
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> can you remind me why did we renamed name to alias in disk?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Pasternak
>> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
>>

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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D