Use "slug" names, instead of full project / font names in URL

[justvanrossum]

These are designed to work nicely in URLs.

Compare:

with:

[justvanrossum]

Problem: neither the currently used display names as the slug names are guaranteed to be unique. We should probably add some unique element to the URL, like the font UUID.

What do you think, @fabiocaccamo?

[fabiocaccamo]

Database entities already have an hashid field (generated using the hashids lib), the purpose of this field is to obfuscate the incremental database id while keeping the id string short (compared to the uuid). It's guaranteed to be unique.

I think we could use the font hashid as last path name in the url, the resulting URL would be something like: /-/gs-testing/hanzi/g4zw3ixz/.

In case we decide to proceed with this solution, we must also expose the hashid field value through the APIs.

[justvanrossum]

In case we decide to proceed with this solution, we must also expose the hashid field value through the APIs.

No need: the Fontra server could make the hashid itself from the font ID.

[fabiocaccamo]

If you want to use independent hashids yes, you can do it on the client side from the font ID, but if you need to generate the same hashid that there is in the database you must use the same settings.