[Mailman-Developers] mailman.client and UUIDs for user.user_id

[Florian Fuchs]

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On 10/29/2014 05:27 PM, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Hi Florian!
> 
> I think mailmanclient should not expose a different value as the
> REST API does (the fact that it's an int representation of a uuid
> isn't exactly obvious from the outside, so a non-explicit
> conversion could potentially lead to some confusion).
> 
> 
> Hmm, to me the current situation is more confusing, since the
> user_id property I get from the REST API is different from the one
> I find in the database.

Yeah, I know what you mean. From a Mailman-developer's view that *is*
confusing.

But the view of non-MM dev, who is just a user of mailmanclient and/or
the REST API (and doesn't know the innards of Mailman's database)
might be different. If the user_id value changes depending on whether
you are using the API directly via HTTP or through mailmanclient, that
might be hard to understand.

> I guess it depends on the reason the UUID is serialized. If it's
> to avoid being messed up during the transport, it's a transport
> issue and I think the library should convert it back (but the
> original ascii string should not be a problem so it's probably not
> that. Anyone remembers why the REST API exposes the int value
> instead of the string? It happened in commit 7043 but the reason is
> not given in the commit message.

Good question. @Barry...?

> But how about we add a `uuid` property to the user object which 
> exposes the original uuid value?
> 
> 
> Not sure that's useful, converting it back to an UUID is easy
> enough ( uuid.UUID(int=value) )

OK ;-)

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