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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:27:57 +0000
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Subject: Re: email as _id?
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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It would be safer to always add "email:" at the front and always strip
the first six characters, rather than look for the colon.

B.

On 21 February 2013 11:25, svilen <az@svilendobrev.com> wrote:
> yes, i did so. the ':' is invalid for emails, so it's easy to decide
> whether to strip/prepend or not
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:14:27 +0000
> Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> correct, you can't start a doc id with _. It seems simple enough to
>> solve this by prefixing "email:" to your ids.
>>
>> B.
>>
>> On 21 February 2013 11:12, Vincenzo Scolaro
>> <scolaro.vincenzo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I had the same need and I did it this way
>> > id = md5 (email)
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Vincenzo
>> >
>> >
>> > 2013/2/21 svilen <az@svilendobrev.com>
>> >
>> >> hi
>> >> the docs state that anything can be put in _id, except that it
>> >> can't start with "_" underscore.
>> >>
>> >> still, the _ is valid character for starting email address...
>> >> effectively meaning that in general, e-mail addresses cannot be
>> >> used as id (the only enforced unique thing).. and has to be stored
>> >> as a field. or prepended with something non-underscore.
>> >>
>> >> correct?
>> >>
>> >> svil
>> >>