[Engine-devel] Guid & NGuid

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> To: "Michael Kublin" <mkublin at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 3:12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Guid & NGuid
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Kublin" <mkublin at redhat.com>
> > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 3:10:14 PM
> > Subject: [Engine-devel] Guid & NGuid
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In ovirt-engine code we have Guid and NGuid objects.
> > Guid is extends NGuid and also NGuid class has method getValue()
> > which should return Guid.
> > As for me these two classes are look like the same and I don't see
> > to
> > much differences between them.
> > My proposal is to remove NGuid and move it functionality to Guid
> > (Because of Guid is much more common)
> > 
> 
> i agree, but we need to take another step forward and allow Guid to
> be null (as it should)
> and not assume its EMPTY or have a value (i'm pretty sure we have
> this assumption in many places)

Hi,

And for the new people out here... why not kill both and use plain standard java UUID[1]?

I think we should kill compat, I don't see any value in fixing anything about it while leaving it intact.

Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/UUID.html