Add nanoid and ulid _id generation options

[janl]

https://github.com/ulid/spec
https://github.com/ai/nanoid

[nickva]

Good idea, Jan.

There is a uuid7, too:

• https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-uuid-format-03.html#name-uuid-version-7
• https://pypi.org/project/uuid7/

[pgj]

How would this look like in practice? Something like a configuration option where the user may choose with algorithm to use for generating the _id values?

[nickva]

We could pick the algorithm to use when a doc is created without an _id fields.

Also there is an API for users to generate block of UUIDs

• https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/api/server/common.html#uuids
• https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/config/misc.html#uuids-configuration

That's mostly from the days when UUIDs libraries in clients weren't ubiquitous.

[janl]

pgj commented 18 hours ago
How would this look like in practice? Something like a configuration option where the user may choose with algorithm to use for generating the _id values?

we already have that, I was hoping we can just add the new algos

[pgj]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the answers.