Is storing the absolute URLs in $refs a good idea?

[jmartinm]

At the moment, as far as I can see, both in the database and in ElasticSearch the $refs between records are expressed as absolute URLs. Talking to @david-caro the question came up of how, for example, could one load a dump of production locally and still have it working (if the references are absolute).

I have seen a couple of 'related' issues on Invenio:

inveniosoftware/invenio-records#117
inveniosoftware/invenio-jsonschemas#23

This same problem might happen, for instance, the moment we switch from labs.inspirehep.net to inspirehep.net, what will we do with the $refs?

[jmartinm]

Talking today IRL, it seems indeed it might not be a good idea. We can instead store a relative path and when presenting the record in the API convert into absolute in the serializer.

[jacquerie]

The helper I introduced in #1680 to convert between schemas and pid_types works as well on relative URLs: https://github.com/inspirehep/inspire-next/pull/1680/files#diff-914d1730de5ed34ec6f4a26aee927dfbR53

[jacquerie]

This issue was moved to inspirehep/inspire-dojson#57