Giving an unique ID ?

[Karnak19]

Hey Solinur, I love the job you do on CombatMetrics, surely the best add-on in the game !

I'm wondering if you can add an unique ID for each fight datas ?

[Solinur]

At the moment the timestamp would be the unique ID.
Wouldn't this suffice? Or do you have something different in mind?

[Karnak19]

hummm yes it's not that false.
Actually, if i'm not wrong when I delete my fight 1, the fight 2 become the fight 1 and so on ?
Wouldn't be better to auto-increment the ID ? Like if I delete my fight 1, my fight 2 will still be 2, for his whole life.

I currently have in mind to create a parse-sharing web platform using these SavedVariables, and I don't really know how to handle this ID issue while having a clean and not too heavy code ^^

[Solinur]

Yes that is just the local index in the table and for technical reasons in lua this has to be continuous, starting at 1. I'd really recommend using the timestamp as a unique id for your purposes.

[Solinur]

Every fight has a field "date" which actually is a standard unix timestamp (which is converted on display)

[Karnak19]

Oh yes I didn't notice the date field, good ! thanks