teris-io/shortid

Super short, fully unique, non-sequential and URL friendly Ids

shortid's Issues

use base58 alphabet

Does it possible to use only base58 default chars? I wan to avoid symbols that looks identically and also have double click - copy/paste friendly string

worker id problem

when I deploy my application in a docker cluster (k8s or docker-compose), I have no method to assign a worker id for different container, I can only get an docker container ID in my app by $HOSTNAME.I want to know what is the best practice to use the lib or generate an shortid by myself?

Returning an error

First of all really good job creating this library! Coming from Node.js I was searching for a shortid alternative a year ago, you finally created it!

When can I expect this library to return an error?
Could this happen randomly, should I panic at this point? Or will this only happen during the first Generate() call?

I'm asking because my current ID generation module does not return an error and I'd prefer to keep my code this way.

Is it Distributed safe?

Hi, thanks for this awesome library. My question is can it be use in a distributed environment?

Question: Is that safe to remove symbols from DefaultABC?

Is that safe to remove symbols from DefaultABC?
Basically, use the string "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" instead.
I am using it to generate shorten URL and do not wish to see symbols from the URL.
Thanks a lot for your project.

Edited:

Sorry that I didn't try it before asking this question. I tried to remove those two symbols and return error message panic: alphabet must contain 64 unique characters. I think that means I can NOT remove symbols. It will be nice I can remove symbols from URL. The id does not have to be 100% unique. I will check the id existence before insert and re-generate if it exists.

Add support for Gomodules

Even though this library doesn't use any external dependencies, it's annoying that it doesn't have a go.mod file.

Is it possible to add it?

index out of range

Hey Guys, I have a gin project actualy using this library, but sometimes send a panic error when generate a new SortID.

This is the error:

An this is my generation code:

sid, _ := shortid.New(1, shortid.DefaultABC, 2342)
ssid,e1 := sid.Generate()

What is the reason of this error?

Publish v1 go mod package

Hi I was looking to use the package and I noticed there is a v1 tagged and released however the latest available package for "go get" is

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/teris-io/[email protected]

Would it be possible to publish the v1 package?

Possible to mock?

Is it possible to mock shortids?

The key feature of shortid is to guarantee its uniqueness, however for testing purpose, is it possible to return a fixed series each time I run my tests? thx.