Should publish API require a claim name?

[tzarebczan]

If we are requiring a claim name on the spee.ch publish API, it should be clear that the name should contain some unique characters since we only support publishing to a single claim name (not sure how long we'll have this limitation, issue is filed on the daemon). This should also be the case if it's optional - someone won't know that until it fails to publish. Or maybe the solution is to tack on a -1/ -2 automatically?

[bones7242]

If a claim name is provided, we shouldn't change that claim while publishing because the request might be depending on getting that exact claim name back. I think giving them an error message is preferred. However, we could add a way for them to opt in to allowing spee.ch to change the claim name (perhaps an optional strict parameter which can be set to false ).

I do agree that the claim name should be optional though, and if not provided spee.ch generates a random hash for the name.

[alyssaoc]

@tzarebczan Is this issue still valid?

[alyssaoc]

closing, reopen if necessary