ember-cli-guid

Utility addon for randomly generating GUID / UUID.

The utility can also compact and expand a GUID into and from a string using base64.

A compact GUID is beneficial for shorter urls and for smaller transfers.

Example

import { compactGuid, createGuid, expandGuid } from 'ember-cli-guid';

let myGuid = createGuid(); // '13ab9d6a-9aa4-40da-ae0d-21181c373e18'
let myCompactedGuid = compactGuid(myGuid); // 'ap2rE6Sa2kCuDSEYHDc-GA'
let myExpandedGuid = expandGuid(myCompactedGuid); // '13ab9d6a-9aa4-40da-ae0d-21181c373e18'

Note: createGuid can return a compact GUID:

createGuid(true); // 'kFy4uun_BkaUdbSGYW1PYQ'

Serverside Use (C#)

A compacted GUID can be easily expanded:

new Guid(Convert.FromBase64String(input.Replace("_", "/").Replace("-", "+") + "=="));

Similarly, a GUID can be compacted:

Convert.ToBase64String(input.ToByteArray()).Substring(0, 22).Replace("/", "_").Replace("+", "-");