Sqids ColdFusion

Sqids (pronounced "squids") is a small library that lets you generate unique IDs from numbers. It's good for link shortening, fast & URL-safe ID generation and decoding back into numbers for quicker database lookups.

Features:

• Encode multiple numbers - generate short IDs from one or several non-negative numbers
• Quick decoding - easily decode IDs back into numbers
• Unique IDs - generate unique IDs by shuffling the alphabet once
• ID padding - provide minimum length to make IDs more uniform
• URL safe - auto-generated IDs do not contain common profanity
• Randomized output - Sequential input provides nonconsecutive IDs
• Many implementations - Support for 40+ programming languages

🧰 Use-cases

Good for:

• Generating IDs for public URLs (eg: link shortening)
• Generating IDs for internal systems (eg: event tracking)
• Decoding for quicker database lookups (eg: by primary keys)

Not good for:

• Sensitive data (this is not an encryption library)
• User IDs (can be decoded revealing user count)

🚀 Getting started

Tested with:

• Adobe ColdFusion 2018
• Adobe ColdFusion 2021
• Adobe ColdFusion 2023
• Lucee 5
• Lucee 6

Clone the repository and copy the Sqids folder to your project. Then in the application.cfc add a mapping

this.mappings[ "/Sqids" ] = expandPath( "/src/Sqids" );

👩‍💻 Examples

Simple encode & decode:

var sqids = new Sqids.SquidsEncoder();
var id = sqids.encode([1, 2, 3]); // "86Rf07"
var numbers = sqids.decode(id); // [1, 2, 3]

Note 🚧 Because of the algorithm's design, multiple IDs can decode back into the same sequence of numbers. If it's important to your design that IDs are canonical, you have to manually re-encode decoded numbers and check that the generated ID matches.

Enforce a minimum length for IDs:

var sqids = new Sqids.SquidsEncoder(new Sqids.SqidsOptions(minLength = 10));
var id = sqids.encode([1, 2, 3]); // "86Rf07xd4z"
var numbers = sqids.decode(id); // [1, 2, 3]

Randomize IDs by providing a custom alphabet:

var sqids = new Sqids.SquidsEncoder(new Sqids.SqidsOptions(alphabet = "FxnXM1kBN6cuhsAvjW3Co7l2RePyY8DwaU04Tzt9fHQrqSVKdpimLGIJOgb5ZE"));
var id = sqids.encode([1, 2, 3]); // "B4aajs"
var numbers = sqids.decode(id); // [1, 2, 3]

Prevent specific words from appearing anywhere in the auto-generated IDs:

var sqids = new Sqids.SquidsEncoder(new Sqids.SqidsOptions(blocklist = ["86Rf07"]));
var id = sqids.encode([1, 2, 3]); // "se8ojk"
var numbers = sqids.decode(id); // [1, 2, 3]

📝 License

MIT