use more human readable method of minting identifiers, over GUIDs

[sarahos]

Protagonist uses a simpler method of generating ID's

• consider Sqids as it's already a NuGet package - https://sqids.org/dotnet
  • Sqids is encoded from numbers, need to look at uniqueness with these numbers
  • use customer id + some other numbers?
  • make sure on second attempt, id is different
• if this won't work, create a NuGet package based on the class
• collisions possible, so need to check for uniqueness
• unit test for checking that duplicate ID's are rejected
• Leeds will use a custom ID retrieved from their system

Acceptance Criteria:

• (more) human readable ID is generated
• The ID must be unique
• There are multiple possible ID systems, so this should use dependency injection

[JackLewis-digirati]

I think the downside to using sqid is it requires numbers to be encoded to generate the ID - an alternative could be ULID?

[christinemacdonald]

Hi @griffri Is this something you can test? I don't see an associated test ticket.

[griffri]

@christinemacdonald Apologies - this looks like something that can be tested so I'll write up a ticket for it soon.