Namespace: idGenerator

Blockly.utils.idGenerator

namespace   static

Generators for unique IDs.

Methods

genUid

static

genUid() returns string

Generate a random unique ID.

See also

internal.genUid

Returns

string A globally unique ID string.

getNextUniqueId

static

getNextUniqueId() returns string

Generate the next unique element IDs. IDs are compatible with the HTML4 id attribute restrictions: Use only ASCII letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'

For UUIDs use genUid (below) instead; this ID generator should primarily be used for IDs that end up in the DOM.

Returns

string The next unique identifier.