I want to create a unique ID to a given string while the same ID should be received for that string every time i'm trying to do that, and two different strings should get different IDs.
Let say the size of the strings is limited to x chars, and therefor this injective function is possible.
Are you familiar with a javascript function or a suitable algorithm that would be good fot it?
Thanks in advance.
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How can i make the variable 'success' that is passed to 'payment_success.php' below to be somehow encrypted, i don't want the user to know the exact variable name passed. i wanted using post method, but i can't use it for my call back function. Any idea will be a great help
callback: function(response){
const referenced = response.reference;
window.location.href='payment_success.php?success='+referenced;
},
The following is one of tricks I used in a project trying to hide a piece of data.
Assuming your string variable is "123abc".
You may first add a random suffix of three characters , so the string can be:
AC1 C8D E9u Z77 Vux
After that you may use a further trick to put your code "123abc" into a format like the following
1[3 random characters]2[4 random characters]3a[2 random characters]bc[3 random characters]
So the result of 123abc will be like
XXX1XXX2XXXX3aXXbcXXX
so can be any one of the following:
56f134a2rxxq3a43bcccd
97z1zux289873a5tbczwq
Eu11qzv2739u3auubc76x
and so on....
After passing to your PHP script, please extract the correct data.
If you want to be safer, split the characters more further apart by inserting longer random characters in between.
You may use further imagination to do the trick. For example, generate a string which can be random in length of the "mixing codes".
Trying to create an activation code which should be unique, but it only consists of specific characters.
So, this is solution which i build
function findByActivationId() {
return Activation
.findOne({activationId})
.lean()
.exec();
}
let activationId = buildActivationId();
while (await findByActivationId(activationId)) {
activationId = buildActivationId();
}
This makes too many db calls, is there any better way to make query to mongodb?
Well, the major problem of checking if key is unique is based on how you are creating those.
Choose the best way for you to avoid bunch of problems later.
Your own generated string as a key
Well, you can do this but it's important to understand few disclaimers
If you want to generate your own key by the code and then compare if it is unique
in the database with all other currently created it can be done. Just create key by your
algorithm then select all keys from db and check if array of selected rows contains this freshly created string
Problems of this solution
As we can see we need to select all keys from DB and then compare each one to freshly created one. Problem can appear when your database is storing big amount of data. Every time application have to "download" big amount of data and then compare it to new one so in addition this might produce some freezes.
But if you are sure that your database will store not that much amount of unique rows, it is cool to work with.
Then it is important to create those keys properly. Now we talking about complexity, more symbols key is created from, harder to get same ones.
Shall we take a look at this example?
If you are creating keys based on letters a-z and numbers 1-9
and the length of key is for example 5, the complexity of this key is 35^5
which generates more than 52 milions possibilities.
Same keys can be generated but it is like a win on a lottery, almost impossible
And then you can just check if generated key is really unique, if not. (oh cmon) Repeat.
Other ways
Use mongodb _id which is always unique
Use UNIX timestamp to create unique key
I have a project, where user can put in drop-down values that can be selected. One can select multiple values at a time. So, we have to store the selection and get it on edit mode.
First thought
Let's store them as comma separated in DB.
f.e.
If suggestions are A , B , C and user selects A and B, I was going to store A,B in DB and while getting back the value split it with comma.
Problem arises when user has genuine "comma" in the field, for an instance first,option & second,option. At that time joining with comma won't work.
Second thought
I can think of another option to store it in a stringified array format and parse it while getting back.
For the above instance, it would store the data as ["first,option","second,option"]. It seems to be a good (and only) option for me.
Even though I have a bit of hesitation doing so (which lead me questioning here!) because my users can access the api/DB value directly and for them it doesn't look good.
So, Is there any other way to address this issue to benefit both parties, developers and users? Thanks in advance!!
I'd suggest using a standardized format such as JSON, XML etc.
Serialize and parse and with a widely used library so all escaping of reserved / special characters is done for you. Rolling your own here will cause you problems!
Better yet, use different fields for each suggestion, this is a better design in general. As long as the number of potential fields is finite this will work, e.g. 1-10 suggestions.
If you're going down the JSON route, we can do this in JavaScript like this:
let suggestions = ['Choice A, commas are not, a problem, though punctuation is.', 'Choice B', 'Choice C'];
let json = JSON.stringify(suggestions);
// Save to DB
saveToDB(json);
let jsonFromDB = loadFromDB();
let deserializedSuggestions = JSON.parse(jsonFromDB);
console.log(deserializedSuggestions);
we use semicolon (;) for this exact use case in our current project.
So, as per your question, they will be stored in the DB as option1;option2;option3
and when we get it back from the DB we can use the split() method on it to convert it into an array of substrings.
var str = "option1;option2;option3";
var res = str.split(";");
console.log(res);
which would result in (3) ["option1", "option2", "option3"] in the console.
hope this helps.
In my former life, I worked with a couple of languages that used to have a string "slice" option where I could literally "slice" out part of the string and save the sliced out part into another variable.
In JS for example, I want to be able to remove the first 2 positions from a string and store that value into another variable.
It would appear in JS that to accomplish the same thing requires two steps.
var twoDigits = myString.slice(0, 2);
myString = myString.substring(2);
Is there a better way to do this without resorting to writing my own function?
I need to implement a simple way to handle localization about weekdays' names, and I came up with the following structure:
var weekdaysLegend=new Array(
{'it-it':'Lunedì', 'en-us':'Monday'},
{'it-it':'Martedì', 'en-us':'Tuesday'},
{'it-it':'Mercoledì', 'en-us':'Wednesday'},
{'it-it':'Giovedì', 'en-us':'Thursday'},
{'it-it':'Venerdì', 'en-us':'Friday'},
{'it-it':'Sabato', 'en-us':'Saturday'},
{'it-it':'Domenica', 'en-us':'Sunday'}
);
I know I could implement something like an associative array (given the fact that I know that javascript does not provide associative arrays but objects with similar structure), but i need to iterate through the array using numeric indexes instead of labels.
So, I would like to handle this in a for cycle with particular values (like j-1 or indexes like that).
Is my structure correct? Provided a variable "lang" as one of the value between "it-it" or "en-us", I tried to print weekdaysLegend[j-1][lang] (or weekdaysLegend[j-1].lang, I think I tried everything!) but the results is [object Object]. Obviously I'm missing something..
Any idea?
The structure looks fine. You should be able to access values by:
weekdaysLegend[0]["en-us"]; // returns Monday
Of course this will also work for values in variables such as:
weekdaysLegend[i][lang];
for (var i = 0; i < weekdaysLegend.length; i++) {
alert(weekdaysLegend[i]["en-us"]);
}
This will alert the days of the week.
Sounds like you're doing everything correctly and the structure works for me as well.
Just a small note (I see the answer is already marked) as I am currently designing on a large application where I want to put locals into a javascript array.
Assumption: 1000 words x4 languages generates 'xx-xx' + the word itself...
Thats 1000 rows pr. language + the same 7 chars used for language alone = wasted bandwitdh...
the client/browser will have to PARSE THEM ALL before it can do any lookup in the arrays at all.
here is my approach:
Why not generate the javascript for one language at a time, if the user selects another language, just respond(send) the right javascript to the browser to include?
Either store a separate javascript with large array for each language OR use the language as parametre to the server-side script aka:
If the language file changes a lot or you need to minimize it per user/module, then its quite archivable with this approach as you can just add an extra parametre for "which part/module" to generate or a timestamp so the cache of the javascript file will work until changes occures.
if the dynamic approach is too performance heavy for the webserver, then publish/generate the files everytime there is a change/added a new locale - all you'll need is the "language linker" check in the top of the page, to check which language file to server the browser.
Conclusion
This approach will remove the overhead of a LOT of repeating "language" ID's if the locales list grows large.
You have to access an index from the array, and then a value by specifying a key from the object.
This works just fine for me: http://jsfiddle.net/98Sda/.
var day = 2;
var lang = 'en-us';
var weekdaysLegend = [
{'it-it':'Lunedì', 'en-us':'Monday'},
{'it-it':'Martedì', 'en-us':'Tuesday'},
{'it-it':'Mercoledì', 'en-us':'Wednesday'},
{'it-it':'Giovedì', 'en-us':'Thursday'},
{'it-it':'Venerdì', 'en-us':'Friday'},
{'it-it':'Sabato', 'en-us':'Saturday'},
{'it-it':'Domenica', 'en-us':'Sunday'}
];
alert(weekdaysLegend[day][lang]);