Does anyone actually use the SetCharacters method?

[bolorundurowb]

If it is not in use, then we can consider removing it in the next major release

[svenbit]

I used SetCharacters in one of the project to generate uppercased+number only shortid

string shortIdCharacters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXQYZ1234567890";

ShortId.SetCharacters(shortIdCharacters);

var opts = new GenerationOptions
{
   UseSpecialCharacters = false,
   UseNumbers = true,
   Length = 12
};

ShortId.Generate(opts);

[inexuscore]

@svenbit This doesn't work, the library throws an InvalidOperationException saying The replacement characters must be at least 50 letters in length and without whitespace. I'd like to generate uppercase letters only + digits. Any ideas?

[bolorundurowb]

@inexuscore the limitation was added in version 3.0.0 to improve uniqueness of generated ids. If you want to limit the character set then you can use version 2.0.4

[inexuscore]

@bolorundurowb ah I see, that's what I thought. Thank you very much, I'll stick with the latest version. Better to have more uniqueness than unreliable IDs.

[djordjedjukic]

@inexuscore I am using something like this:

ShortId.Generate(true, false, 12).Insert(6, "-").ToUpper()

Only numbers. length 12 and dash in the middle.

[inexuscore]

@djordjedjukic brilliant, thank you.