Comment 4 for bug 1209291

I know this is already merged, but I still have a few questions about it.

1) I am wondering, was there consideration of leveraging the auto-barcode trigger which already exists in the DB? That is, any barcode starting with '@@' is auto generated at the DB-layer. We would lose the ability to set a custom prefix, but I am wondering how important that is apart from making the barcode not collide, and '@@' barcodes can never collide by design.

2) Regarding barcode collision avoidance, I looked at the code diff, and did not notice anything addressing that (though it was mentioned in the design spec). Or is that already handled by an existing part of Vandelay?

If it is important to have custom prefixes, I would prefer to see us modify the '@@' trigger to allow for '@VAN@' (for example), where 'VAN' could be any characters A-Z.

I think this would all be fairly simple to retrofit, and would be a (small) win for general unity. What do you think, Bill?