Comments on: Grails GORM and UUIDs http://danlynn.com/grails/grails-gorm-and-uuids/ Finding adventure in just about everything Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:48:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan http://danlynn.com/grails/grails-gorm-and-uuids/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Dan Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:35:53 +0000 http://danlynn.com/?p=39#comment-11 I suppose that slight overhead is really the only disadvantage. It might even be worth that small cost in order to tell GORM not to make that field nullable. Good point! I suppose that slight overhead is really the only disadvantage. It might even be worth that small cost in order to tell GORM not to make that field nullable. Good point!

]]> By: Roshan Shrestha http://danlynn.com/grails/grails-gorm-and-uuids/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Roshan Shrestha Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:03:39 +0000 http://danlynn.com/?p=39#comment-10 What is the disadvantage of assigning the UUID during construction? String uniqueIdentifier = java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString() For an existing Person read from the DB, there is an extra UUID generated which will be replaced with the value from the database, but this should not be much of an overhead? What is the disadvantage of assigning the UUID during construction?

String uniqueIdentifier = java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString()

For an existing Person read from the DB, there is an extra UUID generated which will be replaced with the value from the database, but this should not be much of an overhead?

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