Smaller than UUID and copy-paste friendly.
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Inspired by Nano ID
PHP implementation as composer package: https://github.com/shanginn/smolid
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Fast unique smol ID generator
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| -- Function: smolid | |
| -- Generates a random string of a specified size using the provided alphabet | |
| -- size: The length of the generated string (default is 21) | |
| -- alphabet: A string of characters from which the random string will be created (default is upper/lower case letters and digits) | |
| CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION smolid( | |
| size INTEGER DEFAULT 21, | |
| alphabet TEXT DEFAULT 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789' | |
| ) | |
| RETURNS TEXT AS $$ | |
| DECLARE | |
| result TEXT := ''; | |
| i INTEGER; | |
| BEGIN | |
| FOR i IN 1..size LOOP | |
| result := result || substr(alphabet, floor(random() * length(alphabet) + 1)::int, 1); | |
| END LOOP; | |
| RETURN result; | |
| END; | |
| $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; |
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| import random | |
| def smolid(self, size: int = 21, alphabet: str = string.ascii_letters + string.digits) -> str: | |
| """ | |
| Generate a random ID of the given size using the specified alphabet. | |
| :param size: Length of the random ID to generate, defaults to 21 | |
| :param alphabet: Characters to use for generating the ID, defaults to alphanumeric characters | |
| :return: Randomly generated ID as a string | |
| """ | |
| return ''.join(random.choice(alphabet) for _ in range(size)) |
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