Page Naming Strategy and wanted links

[vmassol]

@tmortagne

Isn’t this page name strategy behavior to generate a new UUID every time you try to create a page (even a page name which looks like a UUID already) ? If that’s the case, you cannot really pre-validate anything, as the link will always be different from the UUID that will eventually be generated in the /action/.

hmm good point, I hadn’t considered that it could be implemented like this. I had assumed that if the link was already a UUID it would be used but you’re probably right that it’s going to be regenerated.

EDIT: Actually I think it could work, see api-random-page-names/src/main/java/org/xwiki/contrib/validation/uuidpages/UUIDEntityNameValidation.java at master · xwiki-contrib/api-random-page-names · GitHub (the page naming strategy has 2 apis: transform & validate). So validate() should work if you provide a UUID-matching pattern.