// Copyright 2016 Apcera Inc. All rights reserved. // A unique identifier generator that is high performance, very fast, and tries to be entropy pool friendly. package nuid import ( "crypto/rand" "fmt" "math" "math/big" "sync" "time" prand "math/rand" ) // NUID needs to be very fast to generate and truly unique, all while being entropy pool friendly. // We will use 12 bytes of crypto generated data (entropy draining), and 10 bytes of sequential data // that is started at a pseudo random number and increments with a pseudo-random increment. // Total is 22 bytes of base 62 ascii text :) // Version of the library const Version = "1.0.0" const ( digits = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" base = 62 preLen = 12 seqLen = 10 maxSeq = int64(839299365868340224) // base^seqLen == 62^10 minInc = int64(33) maxInc = int64(333) totalLen = preLen + seqLen ) type NUID struct { pre []byte seq int64 inc int64 } type lockedNUID struct { sync.Mutex *NUID } // Global NUID var globalNUID *lockedNUID // Seed sequential random with crypto or math/random and current time // and generate crypto prefix. func init() { r, err := rand.Int(rand.Reader, big.NewInt(math.MaxInt64)) if err != nil { prand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano()) } else { prand.Seed(r.Int64()) } globalNUID = &lockedNUID{NUID: New()} globalNUID.RandomizePrefix() } // New will generate a new NUID and properly initialize the prefix, sequential start, and sequential increment. func New() *NUID { n := &NUID{ seq: prand.Int63n(maxSeq), inc: minInc + prand.Int63n(maxInc-minInc), pre: make([]byte, preLen), } n.RandomizePrefix() return n } // Generate the next NUID string from the global locked NUID instance. func Next() string { globalNUID.Lock() nuid := globalNUID.Next() globalNUID.Unlock() return nuid } // Generate the next NUID string. func (n *NUID) Next() string { // Increment and capture. n.seq += n.inc if n.seq >= maxSeq { n.RandomizePrefix() n.resetSequential() } seq := n.seq // Copy prefix var b [totalLen]byte bs := b[:preLen] copy(bs, n.pre) // copy in the seq in base36. for i, l := len(b), seq; i > preLen; l /= base { i -= 1 b[i] = digits[l%base] } return string(b[:]) } // Resets the sequential portion of the NUID. func (n *NUID) resetSequential() { n.seq = prand.Int63n(maxSeq) n.inc = minInc + prand.Int63n(maxInc-minInc) } // Generate a new prefix from crypto/rand. // This call *can* drain entropy and will be called automatically when we exhaust the sequential range. // Will panic if it gets an error from rand.Int() func (n *NUID) RandomizePrefix() { var cb [preLen]byte cbs := cb[:] if nb, err := rand.Read(cbs); nb != preLen || err != nil { panic(fmt.Sprintf("nuid: failed generating crypto random number: %v\n", err)) } for i := 0; i < preLen; i++ { n.pre[i] = digits[int(cbs[i])%base] } }