[Cubicweb] About cwuri

[Sylvain Thénault]

On 17 février 13:07, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> 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" ?

extid is a system metadata not queryable from RQL.

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