Feature Request: Use UUID-s as the identifiers about grocy HOT 3 CLOSED

Beside more serious one like possibility of overflowing to some security issue regarding the possibility of enumerating entities

pedantic reasons

Grocy is about helping with practical relevant problems, not the theoretical ones and the target use case is your home. So what's the practically relevant and drastic security issue you think about, while keeping that target use case in mind?

Removing entities create gaps which can not be filled as id's can not be modified

ID's are not meant to be beautiful, they serve a technical purpose, nothing more and else.

Additionally they introduce unnatural order of entities

Ordering never happens by id, but by the column you or the the user chooses (most of the time a column named name by default).

We can end up with tomato more important than onion with empty space after cucumber.

Don't know how "important" is related to id's at all...

drawback of being 128 bit's long

So we waste twice the amount (even more for real-world-common small values) an integer takes while also having something less human readable (at least relevant when debugging stuff) - yeah, we need that, not.

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Do you even use Grocy in your daily life and that's the most important issue you have?

Experimenting with setup and configurations currently. Noticed more issues at this point, but most of them were already addressed. Gently saying I'm not happy about the decisions regarding them. Checked the code also, to see how to adapt it to my needs. I'd rather won't do it.

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Gently saying I'm not happy about the decisions regarding them. Checked the code also, to see how to adapt it to my needs. I'd rather won't do it.

I'm not aiming to make the perfect solution fitting each and everyone on this planet. The goal was and is only to fit my personal use case. And it turned out over the years that if fits the needs of a couple of thousands others quite as well, which is (lately sometimes not so much) my pleasure. So everything is more than fine.

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