Mechanism to build dynamic locations to reduce brittleness in a team environment

A machine-implemented method, comprising:

• detecting an initial first load of a project that includes multiple resources;
• scanning the project to identify the resources within the project;
• generating a key for each resource, renaming each file that defines each resource within its current location of the project to include as part of each file's name the corresponding key assigned to that resource;
• recording a current location for each resource;
• producing an index that maps each key to its corresponding current location, and maintaining a dynamic mapping to the current location permitting a legacy location that references each resource to change without breaking other applications that depend on each of the resources;
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• subsequently resolving references made to each of the resources, each reference directed to a particular resource's legacy location, by using the index with particular keys for each of the references to obtain and to return particular current locations for each of the resources that are associated with the particular keys.

A machine-implemented system, comprising:

• a machine having a key generator implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and to process on the machine within a network;
• and
• the machine of a different machine having a key manager implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and to process on the machine or the different machine of the network;
• wherein the key generator is to generate a key for a resource of a project when the project is loaded within a project processing environment for a first time, and wherein the key manager uses the key to create an index that maps the key to an initial location for the resource within the project, and the key is inserted back into the project for specific references made to the resource within the project, and wherein the initial location subsequently changes during subsequent loads of the project within the project processing environment and the key manager updates the index to map the key to the changed location, and wherein the key manager dynamically resolves references made to the resource, the references directed to the initial location for the resource, during a lifecycle of the project to a then-current location for the resource within the project processing environment using the key embedded with those references in the project, dynamic mappings are maintained to the then-current location permitting the initial location for the resource to dynamically change without breaking other applications that depend on the resource.

A machine-implemented system, comprising:

• one or more machines of a network having a project represented as resources that are implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and that processes on the one or more machines of the network;
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• the one or more machines of the network having a resource resolver service implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and that processes on the one of the machines of the network;
• wherein when the project is initially loaded into a project processing environment on the machines, embedded references to the resources within the project are translated to keys, and the keys are inserted into the project with the embedded references, each key for each resource maps to a then-existing location for that resource within the project processing environment, and wherein the resource resolver service dynamically resolves references made for the resources, the references directed to legacy locations for the resources, by using the keys and locating the then-existing location for each of the resources within the project processing environment that are associated with those keys, dynamic mappings are maintained to each resource's the then-existing location permitting the legacy location of each resource to change without breaking other applications that depend on each of the resources.