2013/7/29 Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name>: > Am 29.07.2013 um 15:46 schrieb "Esteban A. Maringolo" <emaring...@gmail.com>: >> Is it a good practice to use the OID value (anInteger) as an >> "external" identifier of your domain object? >> ... >> I like OID/UUIDs, and I don't want to duplicate that logic in my app. >> > I think for your purpose OID will be fine but I'm not sure. I use UUIDs. You > can instruct mongo to use a UUID instead of an OID. Works flawlessly.
How do you do that? Because OID's are a BSON native artifact, efficient in terms of storage and lookup (a 12 byte integer in the end...) Is there a way to have an smaller UUID? more like the first eight chars of a Git commit or similar... Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo
