New version at
http://nxtra.org/nxt-client/Basically, I changed asset issuance;
See this screen below, you'll see there are a bunch of extra settings. The most important of which is the suffix.
Now that the asset exchange allows non-unique names you'll see duplicate listings. I don't like this. Now, in the future I will show as XYZ.001, XYZ.002 etc (it doesn't yet now for technical reasons), but even that is not a good solution. We need some kind of branding.
That's why I added a suffix field. This field should be set to an alias you control.
This allows you to brand your asset. For example, if you sell gold, instead of it being displayed like "gold.012" you can display as "gold.yourname".
The prefix (gold) is not unique, the suffix is (since it's an alias which is already unique).
There are a few other fields also like tags but I don't really use these now. I added this because CFB is also adding tagging capability to his digital goods store. However, he is doing it server side, I'm doing it client side. I don't like that.
I would like for both api's (asset exchange and DGS) to have as much in common as possible). I'm only adding tagging here as a proof of concept at the moment.
Anyway, this is how an asset with a suffix looks like in the sidebar:
This too I would like to see integrated on the server side, as an extra field in the assets table. Why? Because right now I have to do double the requests; I have to first fetch the asset, if it has an alias assigned to it, fetch the alias and check to see if it belongs to the asset issuer (if not it is not displayed). So this is not as efficient, and since it's a field that can never change, it doesn't make sense not to integrate it in to the asset exchange table.
Of course, only if you guys (the community) like this feature.
Please let me know your feedback on this. I think it solves all the issues; we have a non-unique prefix and a brandable, unique suffix.
Thanks to pandaisftw and jl777 for the ideas.
Test this, and let me know if you find any bugs or have suggestions.
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