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Avoid possible collision #10

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BrenQ opened this issue Feb 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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Avoid possible collision #10

BrenQ opened this issue Feb 14, 2020 · 0 comments
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BrenQ commented Feb 14, 2020

Generating a random code can cause collisions. Even more in the future.

A possible approach in the future is to generate a counter in mongo that will increase its value.

Given this value we can encode or decode it in base62 to obtain a short url
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