Exhibition/About seems broken

[Hugues Boily]

Hi Antranig,

You could use the exhibit id from the McCord feed as a domain-specific 
stable key.

Cheers,
Hugues

Antranig Basman wrote:
> I might have broken this myself by recent changes... but my best 
> impression is that a few (one?) of the Couch views are not functioning 
> correctly, perhaps as a result of the "always output strings" changes of 
> this evening.
>
> The following URL is one of those issued to Couch - intermittently I 
> managed to get a version of it issued by the system that was actually 
> encoded in ISO-8859 but this seems to have now passed.
>
> http://142.150.154.59:5984/mccord_exhibitions/_design/exhibitions/_view/view?key={"title":"Simply%2BMontr%25C3%25A9al%253A%2BGlimpses%2Bof%2Ba%2BUnique%2BCity","lang":"en"}
>
> The return value from Couch is
> {"total_rows":10,"offset":8,"rows":[]}
>
> I should mention that this is an entirely unsatisfactory kind of URL but 
> I guess we have known this for a while - I have tried to make the barest 
> beginnings this evening to a more reasonable way of mapping state onto a 
> URL space but it will have to wait till post-pilot to see more work.
>
> Could I suggest in the meantime that instead of issuing titles in URLs 
> we instead use document UUIDs, which will head off risks of encoding 
> issues of this kind? Titles are not a stable element of the data domain.
> In truth, we should be deriving a proper domain-specific stable key, but 
> I don't know enough about the McCord set to find this right now.
>
> Also, that this URL should be redesigned to read
> http://142.150.154.59:5984/mccord_exhibitions/_design/exhibitions/_view/view?key=docID&lang=en
>
> Apologies if I broke this view myself, I scratched my head a while about 
> it :P
>
> Cheers,
> Antranig.
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