full-format workflow IDs looks like wrong path

[hjoliver]

https://cylc.discourse.group/t/service-contact-file-keeps-getting-deleted/1164/8

Full-format IDs, which include the user name, aren't used much yet, but are logged by the UI Server.

Unfortunately they look confusingly like the full file path of the workflow with a bit missing:

~user/my-workflow/run1  # full-format ID of workflow
~user/cylc-run/my-workflow/run1  # full path of worklfow

To avoid confusion, should we:

• use ~user/cylc-run as the username part of the ID?
• change ID format a bit, e.g. ~user:workflow-id ?
• just change the logging?

[oliver-sanders]

IMO, this is not a problem. We also can't easily change it at this stage as it is part of the API.

use ~user/cylc-run as the username part of the ID?

Accurate, but needlessly verbose.

change ID format a bit, e.g. ~user:workflow-id ?

Doesn't really help?

just change the logging?

The ID is kinda fundamental, the CLI / GraphQL make use of this format, so we need to use it consistently.