Re: [p2-dev] URLs, URIs, and IDs (oh my)

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

Ed Merks wrote:
> <stuff deleted>
> > URI uri = new URI("myscheme:blah");
> > ID fooID = IDFactory.createID("foo",uri);
> > ID barID = IDFactory.createID("bar",uri);
> > fooID.equals(barID) -> false
> So serializing an ID would require serializing the namespace and the 
> other part of the string...

Yes.


> > <stuff deleted>
> I see...  I could imagine someone having a model that wanted to 
> serialize IDs and would need to do ID -> String -> ID mapping in order 
> to achieve that goal.  (Of course someone will want such a model, it 
> goes without saying, but I thought I'd point out the obvious.)

Yes.  There is a method that we've provided on ID to aid such a model:

String ID.toExternalForm();

Scott