Crate scru128

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§SCRU128: Sortable, Clock and Random number-based Unique identifier

SCRU128 ID is yet another attempt to supersede UUID for the users who need decentralized, globally unique time-ordered identifiers. SCRU128 is inspired by ULID and KSUID and has the following features:

  • 128-bit unsigned integer type
  • Sortable by generation time (as integer and as text)
  • 25-digit case-insensitive textual representation (Base36)
  • 48-bit millisecond Unix timestamp that ensures useful life until year 10889
  • Up to 281 trillion time-ordered but unpredictable unique IDs per millisecond
  • 80-bit three-layer randomness for global uniqueness
// generate a new identifier object
let x = scru128::new();
println!("{}", x); // e.g., "036z951mhjikzik2gsl81gr7l"
println!("{}", x.to_u128()); // as a 128-bit unsigned integer

// generate a textual representation directly
println!("{}", scru128::new_string()); // e.g., "036z951mhzx67t63mq9xe6q0j"

See SCRU128 Specification for details.

§Crate features

Default features:

  • std configures Scru128Generator with the system clock. Without std, this crate provides basic SCRU128 primitives available under no_std environments.
  • rand enables an adapter for rand::RngCore to use rand and any other conforming random number generators with Scru128Generator.
  • default_rng (implies std) provides the default random number generator for Scru128Generator and enables the Scru128Generator::new() constructor.
  • global_gen (implies default_rng) provides the process-wide default SCRU128 generator and enables the new() and new_string() functions.

Optional features:

  • serde enables serialization/deserialization of Scru128Id via serde.

Re-exports§

pub use generator::Scru128Generator;

Modules§

generator
SCRU128 generator and related items.

Structs§

ParseError
An error parsing an invalid string representation of SCRU128 ID.
Scru128Id
Represents a SCRU128 ID and provides converters and comparison operators.

Functions§

newglobal_gen
Generates a new SCRU128 ID object using the global generator.
new_stringglobal_gen
Generates a new SCRU128 ID encoded in the 25-digit canonical string representation using the global generator.