Golang port of ai/nanoid (originally written in JavaScript).

A tiny, secure URL-friendly unique string ID generator for Golang.

Safe. It uses cryptographically strong random APIs and guarantees a proper distribution of symbols.

Compact. It uses more symbols than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_~) and has the same number of unique options in just 22 symbols instead of 36.

No third party dependencies No need to pollute your $GOPATH

$ go get github.com/jkomyno/nanoid

$ go test -v -bench=.

You should be able to see a log similar to the following one:

=== RUN   TestGeneratesURLFriendlyIDs
--- PASS: TestGeneratesURLFriendlyIDs (0.00s)
=== RUN   TestHasNoCollisions
--- PASS: TestHasNoCollisions (0.21s)
=== RUN   TestFlatDistribution
--- PASS: TestFlatDistribution (0.33s)
goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/jkomyno/nanoid
BenchmarkNanoid-4        1000000              1704 ns/op
PASS
ok      github.com/jkomyno/nanoid       2.265s

This packages tries to offer an API as close as possible to the original JS module.

The Nanoid() function uses URL-friendly symbols (A-Za-z0-9_~) and returns an ID with 22 characters (to have the same collisions probability as UUID v4). Please note that it also returns an error, which (hopefully) will be nil.

import "github.com/jkomyno/nanoid"

id, err := nanoid.Nanoid() //=> "Uakgb_J5m9g~0JDMbcJqLJ"

Symbols -,.() are not encoded in URL, but in the end of a link they could be identified as a punctuation symbol.

If you want to reduce ID length (and increase collisions probability), you can pass length as argument:

import "github.com/jkomyno/nanoid"

id, err := nanoid.Nanoid(10) //=> "IRFa~VaY2b"

If you want to change the ID alphabet or the length you can use low-level Generate function.

import "github.com/jkomyno/nanoid"

id, err := nanoid.Generate("1234567890abcdef", 10) //=> "4f90d13a42"

Alphabet must contain less than 256 symbols.

You can replace the default safe random generator using the Format function.

import (
    "crypto/rand"

    "github.com/jkomyno/nanoid"
)

func random(size int) ([]byte, error) {
	var randomBytes = make([]byte, size)
	_, err := rand.Read(randomBytes)
	return randomBytes, err
}

id, err := nanoid.Format(random, "abcdef", 10) //=> "fbaefaadeb"

Note that random function must follow this spec:

type RandomType func(int) ([]byte, error)

If you want to use the same URL-friendly symbols with format, or take a look at the other defaults value, you can use GetDefaults.

import "github.com/jkomyno/nanoid"

var defaults *nanoid.DefaultsType
defaults = nanoid.GetDefaults()
/*
	&DefaultsType{
		Alphabet: "_~0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",
		Size:     22,
		MaskSize: 5,
	}
*/

ai - nanoid

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.