Unique IDs?

[Craig Brott]

I'm curious how IDs in Inbox are created and managed. Can two messages, threads, files, etc. ever have the same ID even if they belong to different namespaces or users? How are they generated?

Thanks.

[Eben Freeman]

The IDs are random UUIDs, encoded in base 36. For all practical purposes, no two resources will ever have the same ID -- if you generated a billion a day for the next fifty years, the probability of a collision would be about 1e-11, i.e., very small.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Craig Brott <craig...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm curious how IDs in Inbox are created and managed. Can two messages, threads, files, etc. ever have the same ID even if they belong to different namespaces or users? How are they generated?

Thanks.

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[Craig Brott]

Thank you, appreciate the quick reply.