Why not generate a small ammount of letters and numbers and check it's existence agains the database? If nothing is found you just got a unique small "hash" and you can save it in any field of the document. -- Att, Alan Hoffmeister
2013/5/28 Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>: > I'm using mongodb with mongoose, and using normal mongodb objectids as my > primary key. I like objectids but in URLs they're a bit long, and I'd like to > use something shorter. > > I've seen modules like shortid which generate shorter strings, but I'm not > convinced of their uniqueness. I am convinced of the uniqueness of objectids > and would like to find a way to just compress them down a bit. Then I found > the module hashids, which is able to do just that. > > Now the question is: how do I best incorporate hashids into my models? Do I > somehow override each model's id property so that it's automatically > converted into a hashid right after reading from the database and converted > back to an objectid right before saving? Or do I make a virtual field "myid" > or something? How have others handled this? > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
