Re: Future of Text_Password

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:56:55PM +0100, Martin Jansen wrote: > In the past it has become obvious to me that I have been using > Text_Password for much more than just creating passwords. I basically > used it everywhere where I needed to produce "nice looking" random > string. That's why I think it is time for a new package Text_Random > with the following features: ... > * Hooks for making sure that generated strings are really unique. > Often you might want to query a memcached instance or a database with > the generated string to see if it isn't used in an existing record > already. This could be realized by utilizing some sort of hooking > infrastructure. While this type of functionality is certainly useful, I don't think it really belongs in a Text_Random package. Testing a generated key's uniqueness is more the domain of an ID generator or a UUID package[1]. That's not to say that IDs cannot be generated randomly; rather, randomly-generated strings need not have the restriction of being unique, and the framework for verifying their uniqueness may fall outside the bounds of Text_Random. [1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-uuid.html -- Jon Parise (jon of php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)