uuidv7

An experimental implementation of the proposed UUID Version 7

import { uuidv7 } from "uuidv7";

const result = uuidv7(); // e.g., "017fe537-bb13-7c35-b52a-cb5490cce7be"

On browsers and Deno:

import { uuidv7 } from "https://unpkg.com/uuidv7@^0.5";

const result = uuidv7(); // e.g., "017fe537-bb13-7c35-b52a-cb5490cce7be"

Command-line interface:

npx uuidv7

See draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bis-07.

Field and bit layout

This implementation produces identifiers with the following bit layout:

 0                   1                   2                   3
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                          unix_ts_ms                           |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|          unix_ts_ms           |  ver  |        counter        |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|var|                        counter                            |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|                             rand                              |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Where:

• The 48-bit unix_ts_ms field is dedicated to the Unix timestamp in milliseconds.
• The 4-bit ver field is set at 0111.
• The 42-bit counter field accommodates a counter that ensures the increasing order of IDs generated within a millisecond. The counter is incremented by one for each new ID and is reset to a random number when the unix_ts_ms changes.
• The 2-bit var field is set at 10.
• The remaining 32 rand bits are filled with a cryptographically strong random number.

The 42-bit counter is sufficiently large, so you do not usually need to worry about overflow, but in an extremely rare circumstance where it overflows, this library increments the unix_ts_ms field. As a result, the unix_ts_ms may have a greater value than that of the system's real-time clock.

UUIDv7, by design, heavily relies on the system's wall clock to guarantee the monotonically increasing order of generated IDs. A generator may not be able to produce a monotonic sequence if the system clock goes backwards. This library ignores a clock rollback and freezes the previously used unix_ts_ms unless the clock rollback is considered significant (by ten seconds or more). If such a significant rollback takes place, this library resets the generator and thus breaks the monotonic order of generated IDs.

Other features

This library also supports the generation of UUID version 4:

import { uuidv4 } from "uuidv7";

const result = uuidv4(); // e.g., "83229083-75c3-4da5-8378-f88ef1a2bcd1"

uuidv7obj() and uuidv4obj() return an object that represents a UUID as a 16-byte byte array:

import { uuidv7obj } from "uuidv7";

const object = uuidv7obj();
console.log(object.bytes); // Uint8Array(16) [ ... ]
console.log(String(object)); // e.g., "017fea6b-b877-7aef-b422-57db9ed15e9d"

console.assert(object.getVariant() === "VAR_10");
console.assert(object.getVersion() === 7);

console.assert(object.clone().equals(object));
console.assert(object.compareTo(uuidv7obj()) < 0);

See the API documentation for details.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.