RE: [bt-spec] BTP Issue 47 : Handle and Identifier

[Peter Furniss <peter.furniss@choreology.com>]

 

-----BTP Issue 47 : Handle and Identifier

Submitter: Mark Little, HP
Category: technical
Submitter's identification: #16
Description:
Is there anything preventing a Handle being the same as an Identifier? I know that the inverse doesn't make sense, but Handle-to-Identifier would appear to. 
 

Identifier is unambiguous in the scope of the Inferior, handle unambiguous in the scope of the inferiors of a particular Decider (i.e. the superior, for this transaction). The thought was that the handle would be quite short (in August discussions, Alastair propsed just an index integer - 1, 2, 3 ...). There's nothing to stop a Decider using the Identifier if ti wants to - it's probably unlikely the same one would turn up twice.

 

Or dd you mean at type level rather than value - that a handle could be of type Integer ?

 

Peter

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