[dev] Gollem and UIDs

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Thu Feb 12 05:16:39 UTC 2009


Quoting duck <duck at obala.net>:

> I was trying to create and Ansel VFS driver where galleries will be folders
> and images their files. I incounter a limitation in Gollem. Every VFS driver
> user filename as unique identifier in listFolder(). But latter Gollem
> uses the file/folder name for link creation. Is there any reason for this?
> Otherwise it can be changed to allow files with same names to reside in same
> folder (ex uploaded multiply images with the same name in a gallery) and
> properly display names of galleries (using id for identifier and name for in
> the human readable list).

VFS is a filesystem abstraction layer, and filesystems generally  
require a unique name for items in a directory. So I guess I don't  
really understand what you're proposing - how would you introduce the  
concept of id and display_name to VFS?

-chuck


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