[Cubicweb] About cwuri

[Aurélien Campéas]

On 17/02/2014 11:54, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:58:44PM +0100, aurélien campéas wrote:
>>>> CWURI was introduced during a sprint back in 2009. Another object born at
>>>> about the same time is ExternalUri (see cube datafeed).
>>
>> What's their relationship ?
> 
> ExternalUri was born when trying to reuse external data and developing
> the datafeed cube.
> 
> CWURI was introduced when trying to generalize ExternalUri by putting
> it into the core.

But by calling it "cwuri" and making it mandatory and present in
entities of the system source, surely we got some weird semantic
changes, didn't we ?

What was wrong with the "extid" ?

Regards,
Aurélien.