Global Resource Identification

Global Resource ID

Overview

GRID is a package that can be used to uniquely identify resources using Global Resource IDs (GRIDs). The GRID format is:

grid:namespace:owner:resource_type:resource_id

TODO: Potential change grid:namespace:service:resouce_type:resource_id

grid::mashup:verse:v123
grid:prod:tbp:video:v123
grid:dev:tbp:video:v456
grid:prod:accounts:user:u123

Download

To download this package, run:

go get github.com/zpatrick/grid

Usage

This code is taken from the example located in this repo.

package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "log"

        "github.com/zpatrick/grid"
)

func main() {
	g, err := grid.Parse("grid:facebook:user123:comment:88532")
        if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
        }

        fmt.Println("GRID:         ", g.String())
        fmt.Println("Namespace:    ", g.Namespace)
        fmt.Println("Owner:        ", g.Owner)
        fmt.Println("Resource Type:", g.ResourceType)
        fmt.Println("Resource ID:  ", g.ResourceID)
}

Output:

$ go run main.go
GRID:          grid:facebook:comment:88532
Namespace:     facebook
Owner:         user123
Resource Type: comment
Resource ID:   88532

License

This work is published under the MIT license.

Please see the LICENSE file for details.