ynn-ms-idalloc

Ynn micro-service module for ID allocation. Supported FlakeID and UUID.

Installation

$ npm install ynn-ms-idalloc --save

Usage

Starting as a indenpent service

$ npx ynn-ms-idalloc --port=3000

Using as a module

const Ynn = require( 'ynn' );
const app = new Ynn( {
    root : __dirname,
    modules : {
        id : {
            path : 'ynn-ms-idalloc',
            config : { }
        }
    }
} );

Configuration items

flake Object

• datacenter (5 bit) - datacenter identifier. It can have values from 0 to 31.
• worker (5 bit) - worker identifier. It can have values from 0 to 31.
• id (10 bit) - gnerator identifier. It can have values from 0 to 1023. It can be provided instead of datacenter and worker identifiers.
• epoch - number used to reduce value of a generated timestamp. Note that this number should not exceed number of milliseconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC. It can be used to generate smaller ids.

Generating SnowFlake ID is using https://github.com/T-PWK/flake-idgen package.

API

/flake

To generate a SnowFlake ID.

/uuid/v1

To generate UUID version 1

/uuid/v3?name={name}&namespace={namespace}

To generate UUID version 3

/uuid/v4

To generate UUID version 4

/uuid/v5?name={name}&namespace={namespace}

Note: While generating UUID v3 and v5, the namespace can be a pre-defined namespace name in [ dns, url, oid, x500 ] defind in RFC4122. For example:

/uuid/v5?name={name}&namespace=url

To generate UUID version 5