Re: [Plastic-devs] Temporary files and IDs for loadFromURL

[John T. <jon...@gm...>]

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>>>> For symmetry's sake we could also make the id optional for this message,
>>>> and use the table name if it's missing, but I'd prefer not to given the
>>>> potential for lack of uniqueness.
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>> Maybe it's because plastic is so new to me but I don't quite get the logic 
>> here. How many apps are going to break if you deprecate one message and 
>> introduce a few new ones (with clarification). Surely this is the time to 
>> make changes and revisions.
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> Well I don't think we should/will make this change.  However, I think
> we currently consider ourselves in an early phase in which we can
> make some backwardly incompatible changes if we consider there are
> sufficient benefits since the developer community is still quite small
> and responsive.
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Richard, this was me confusing the issue by thinking aloud.  There's no 
good reason to make this ID optional except to make both loadVOTable 
messages have the same argument signature.  Since (with hindsight) we'd 
actually prefer both messages to have the ID as mandatory, my raising 
the idea was daft.