Thanks Mitra! It was my own script and we do have an older version of AA=20
but not easily updateable. So, for the record, I found a workaround=20
getting the short id with GetContent.
Again, thanks for explanation -- make things clearer.
mimo
Mitra wrote:
> Hi Mimo
>
> You don't say what you were doing when you tried to do this ... were=20
> you writing code, or running the AA interface.
>
> This should of course never happen in the AA code.
>
> If its something you are writing ...
>
> The idea of the Zids structure is to covert between the far-to-many=20
> ways that IDs are stored and used within the system, i.e. long, short,=20
> packed and tagged and three variants of quoting packed ids.
>
> Essentially the idea is that any part of the code can use the zids=20
> structure, without caring what form the ids are actually stored in,=20
> and then extract from the zids structure the ids in the form it needs.
>
> However not all the possible translations are actually coded.
>
> What you are doing, is presumably working somewhere where you need=20
> shortids, but whatever created the array of shortids created it with=20
> packed ids.
>
> Unfortunately I can't get my installation to update from CVS (see=20
> separate message) so I can't be 100% sure, but the copy I've got does=20
> NOT contain this error message in shortids, which it looks like could=20
> handle packed ids (type p). I'd suggest updating your aa installation=20
> and trying again. Otherwise, please email me a copy of =20
> apc-aa/include/zids.php3 , and/or check its at or later than version=20
> 1.26 (second line of zids.php3).
>
> - Mitra
>
>
>
> At 4:51 PM +0100 11/8/04, Michael Moritz wrote:
>
>> Hi Mitra,
>>
>> how can I convert long item ids to short item ids in case I needed=20
>> to? This is what my script returned:
>>
>> Query duration: 0.17414784431458
>> Rows returned: 1object(zids)(2) { ["a"]=3D> array(1) { [0]=3D>=20
>> string(16) ""=C6=CD=B0=E6=03=0C*=CA=19'HU=D1>t" } ["type"]=3D> string(=
1) "p" } ERROR -=20
>> zids:shortids(): can't handle type p conversion to shortids - ask mitr=
a
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> mimo
>>
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