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RobThree / NUlid

.Net ULID implementation
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Is there a way to serialize and maintain ordering? #13

Closed lambdakris closed 5 years ago

lambdakris commented 5 years ago

Is there a means of serializing an NUlid object and still maintaining it's lexicographic ordering? More specifically, is there a way or would it make sense to convert an NUlid object into a representation than can be stored and have it still maintain its order amongst other stored NUlid objects?

RobThree commented 5 years ago

Uh, the string representation is the serialized and ordered form? I'm not sure I understand the question?

RobThree commented 5 years ago

@lambdakris Did this answer your question? Can I close the issue? Or do you still have a question?

lambdakris commented 5 years ago

Hey @RobThree, took another look and looks like I may have made a mistake initially. I had written some code to test ordering, but I had failed to take into account that if I create a bunch of ulids in the same millisecond then ordering is not guaranteed unless I use the MonotonicUlidRng. This makes sense and I think I can deal with that so feel free to close the issue. However, just in case you want to double check what I was doing, here is the example console app I created to verify how ordering was working.

RobThree commented 5 years ago

Looks good to me 😉