http://stackoverflow.com/a/8472700/13181
http://stackoverflow.com/a/8472700/13181
These id s don t need to be globally unique, only unique per user. Will this generate sufficiently unique ids for a large scale application? Is there any reason to think this will result in id collisions? Can javascript generate a sufficiently random uuid for this to work? It looks like window.crypto is fairly widely available and this particular project already requires reasonably modern browsers.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/236309/strategy-for-generating-unique-and-secure-identifiers-for-use-in-a-sometimes-of
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/236309/strategy-for-generating-unique-and-secure-identifiers-for-use-in-a-sometimes-of
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2117523/1468130
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2117523/1468130
... (cont d) The odds of two IDs generated by this function colliding
are, literally, astronomically small. All but 6 of the 128 bits of the
ID are randomly generated, which means that for any two ids, there s a
1 in 2^^122 (or 5.3x10^^36) chance they ll collide. – broofa
That s a 1 in 5,316,911,983,139,663,491,615,228,241,121,378,304 (5.3 undecillion) chance of collision.
Also make sure to validate that when a user attempts to create a new record with this uuid, that the uuid is not already in use. This falls under the larger strategy of never trusting user input.
You can also test this generator if you aren t convinced:
function getUUID() {
return xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx .replace(/[xy]/g, function(c) {
var r = Math.random()*16|0, v = c == x ? r : (r&0x3|0x8);
return v.toString(16);
});
}
var uuids = [];
var last;
var numGenerated = 0;
do {
last = getUUID();
if (uuids.indexOf(last) === -1) {
uuids.push(last);
numGenerated++;
console.log(numGenerated);
} else {
break;
}
} while (true);
console.log( Got collision after + numGenerated + generated UUIDS. );
I m running it in Node.js (V8) right now and am still collision-free after 170,000 ids. Edit: 240,000.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23164474/how-unique-and-random-are-javascript-generated-uuids