Module oids

Nim OID support. An OID is a global ID that consists of a timestamp, a unique counter and a random value. This combination should suffice to produce a globally distributed unique ID. This implementation was extracted from the Mongodb interface and it thus binary compatible with a Mongo OID.

This implementation calls math.randomize() for the first call of genOid.

Types

Oid = object
  time: int32                  ## 
  fuzz: int32                  ## 
  count: int32                 ## 
  
an OID   Source Edit

Procs

proc `==`(oid1: Oid; oid2: Oid): bool {.
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Compare two Mongo Object IDs for equality   Source Edit
proc hexbyte(hex: char): int {.
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proc parseOid(str: cstring): Oid {.
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parses an OID.   Source Edit
proc oidToString(oid: Oid; str: cstring) {.
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proc `$`(oid: Oid): string {.
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proc genOid(): Oid {.
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generates a new OID.   Source Edit
proc generatedTime(oid: Oid): Time {.
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returns the generated timestamp of the OID.   Source Edit