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nedb/lib/customUtils.js

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/**
* Utility functions that need to be reimplemented for each environment.
* This is the version for Node.js
* @module customUtilsNode
* @private
*/
const crypto = require('crypto')
/**
* Return a random alphanumerical string of length len
* There is a very small probability (less than 1/1,000,000) for the length to be less than len
* (il the base64 conversion yields too many pluses and slashes) but
* that's not an issue here
* The probability of a collision is extremely small (need 3*10^12 documents to have one chance in a million of a collision)
* See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
* @param {number} len
* @return {string}
* @alias module:customUtilsNode.uid
*/
const uid = len => crypto.randomBytes(Math.ceil(Math.max(8, len * 2)))
.toString('base64')
.replace(/[+/]/g, '')
.slice(0, len)
// Interface
module.exports.uid = uid