Using email id as Node name

[hptarora]

Hi,

I have a form to grab email id and other info for registration and saving as nodes.

I just want an advice on how right or safe to use email id as Node name.

Thanks

[Asutosh_Jena_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @hptarora 

If your application requires any specific logic to create node based on certain name you can use that else you can generate node name using UUID:

UUID uuid = UUID.randomUUID();
String nodeName = uuid.toString();

Now all the form values can be stored as a node property in the node so it will be something like below:

Thanks! 

[hptarora]

How long node name can be ?

[Asutosh_Jena_]

@hptarora There is no such documentation, but this might be helpful where it says 150 chars.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-2644

You can put upto 350 characters (500 characters is max) as per the above ticket.

But using the GUID should not be an issue as I am using already this on my system and it works perfectly fine.

[arunpatidar]

Hi,

you can encode an email to get a unique node name and use that as a node name.

https://www.base64encode.org/ 

[Varun_Shakya]

• Its not a best way to create node names with email ids. you can create node and then set emailId as property in the nodes. 
• This explains some node naming conventions  https://jackrabbit.apache.org/archive/wiki/JCR/NodeNamingConventions_115513460.html