Support nanoid for unique ID generation

[JonL]

ai/nanoid

I already implemented this with custom code for my project but as I’ve seen some people asking for UUID in the forum I thought I would open a FR for a similar but better approach to unique ids.

[Antony]

@JonL, would you be willing to share your custom code here so we can just paste it into our designs?

[JonL]

Unfortunately it is not one of those you can just copy and paste.

[Philip_J]

Any tips for implementing this then? I’ll have a bit more of look at the link, but it wouldn’t be all that hard would it?

[JonL]

No, it is not difficult. It just depends on the implementation and server model(thus the FR). I’ve seen js, php and asp.net implementations.

[JonL]

Released for nodejs as a custom module extension.

Nano ID 0.1 custom module released (nodejs)

I just finished building the custom module extension for nanoid A tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript. Think of UUID but faster. You can grab it from here and store the two files in extensions/server_connect/modules/ It implements all methods from the API except for Custom Random Bytes Generator. If there is enough interest I will think about adding it although I would be surprised if anyone needs it. It has two versions: a synchronous and an asynchronous…

[Teodor]

You can now generate UUID in server connect:

Generating an unique UUID identifier

Intro You can quickly generate an unique UUID identifier in Server Connect and use it in your API Action (Server Action) steps, where required. Generating UUID The UUID is available in the global value in the server data picker, not as a separate step in the server action steps. So it will be available for you in every step, where you see the data picker icon - database insert, update and many others. We will show you the generated UUID using a simple set value step. We created an API Actio…