[CalendarServer-users] Has UID/GUID syntax changed from CalendarServer-5.2.2 to 6.0

[Andre LaBranche]

… but my understanding of how short name is used was probably wrong.

/principals/users/foo works where shortname is foo, not where uid is foo.

-dre

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Andre LaBranche <dre at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don’t think I said that UID isn’t required, I said GUID isn’t required.  I just verified that a record with no ‘guid’ attribute and a ‘uid’ value of ‘foo’ works fine, using either e.g. /principals/users/foo or /principals/__uids__/foo.
> 
> -dre
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Peter Mogensen <apm at one.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I happened to read this:
>> 
>> https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/calendarserver-users/2015-March/002580.html
>> 
>> *Andre LaBranche wrote:*
>> 
>>> The path component in /calendars/users/____ is the UID value from the user record,
>>> which typically looks like a shortname.
>>> 
>>> You can also use /principals/__uids__/____, where the missing component is the GUID.
>>> In cases where GUID is not specified in the record, the UID value appears to be usable instead.
>> 
>> Hmm... isn't this wrong? It doesn't seem to be what my 6.0 server does.
>> 
>> Rather it's:
>> 
>> /calendars/users/<shortname>
>> 
>> /principals/__uids__/<uid>
>> 
>> 4.x had a fallback to use GUID if UID was not specified, but 6.0 requires UID to be defined.
>> 
>> /Peter
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