Generate variant when conflict w/ existing callback [#1316976]

Can we have Pathauto try and generate a unique variant of the alias in cases where the alias generated conflicts with an existing callback function? Is there a reason why Pathauto treats this kind of conflict differently that conflicts with existing aliases?

I'd be willing to attempt writing a patch for this if it makes sense to the community.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	callback-conflict-variant-1316976.patch	2.15 KB	nmc
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Comment #1

Dave Reid

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CreditAttribution: Dave Reid commented 21 October 2011 at 18:02

I'm not sure I quite understand? Could you expand on this?

Comment #2

nmc CreditAttribution: nmc commented 24 October 2011 at 13:03

There are at least two cases where an alias may be in conflict. Example: when trying to create the alias domain.com/hello-world

Case where domain.com/hello-world alias already exists and likely points to a different node
Case where domain.com/hello-world resolves to an existing callback likely implemented by a hook_menu function in some module

In case 1, pathauto tries to generate a variant (domain.com/hello-world-0), but in case 2, pathauto does not try to generate a variant. I'd like pathauto to be able to generate a variant for case 2 as well.