customUtils.js

/**
 * Utility functions that need to be reimplemented for each environment.
 * This is the version for the browser & React-Native
 * @module customUtilsBrowser
 * @private
 */

/**
 * Taken from the crypto-browserify module
 * https://github.com/dominictarr/crypto-browserify
 * NOTE: Math.random() does not guarantee "cryptographic quality" but we actually don't need it
 * @param {number} size in bytes
 * @return {Array<number>}
 */
const randomBytes = size => {
  const bytes = new Array(size)

  for (let i = 0, r; i < size; i++) {
    if ((i & 0x03) === 0) r = Math.random() * 0x100000000
    bytes[i] = r >>> ((i & 0x03) << 3) & 0xff
  }

  return bytes
}

/**
 * Taken from the base64-js module
 * https://github.com/beatgammit/base64-js/
 * @param {Array} uint8
 * @return {string}
 */
const byteArrayToBase64 = uint8 => {
  const lookup = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
  const extraBytes = uint8.length % 3 // if we have 1 byte left, pad 2 bytes
  let output = ''
  let temp

  const tripletToBase64 = num => lookup[num >> 18 & 0x3F] + lookup[num >> 12 & 0x3F] + lookup[num >> 6 & 0x3F] + lookup[num & 0x3F]

  // go through the array every three bytes, we'll deal with trailing stuff later
  for (let i = 0, length = uint8.length - extraBytes; i < length; i += 3) {
    temp = (uint8[i] << 16) + (uint8[i + 1] << 8) + (uint8[i + 2])
    output += tripletToBase64(temp)
  }

  // pad the end with zeros, but make sure to not forget the extra bytes
  if (extraBytes === 1) {
    temp = uint8[uint8.length - 1]
    output += lookup[temp >> 2]
    output += lookup[(temp << 4) & 0x3F]
    output += '=='
  } else if (extraBytes === 2) {
    temp = (uint8[uint8.length - 2] << 8) + (uint8[uint8.length - 1])
    output += lookup[temp >> 10]
    output += lookup[(temp >> 4) & 0x3F]
    output += lookup[(temp << 2) & 0x3F]
    output += '='
  }

  return output
}

/**
 * Return a random alphanumerical string of length len
 * There is a very small probability (less than 1/1,000,000) for the length to be less than len
 * (il the base64 conversion yields too many pluses and slashes) but
 * that's not an issue here
 * The probability of a collision is extremely small (need 3*10^12 documents to have one chance in a million of a collision)
 * See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
 * @param {number} len
 * @return {string}
 * @alias module:customUtilsNode.uid
 */
const uid = len => byteArrayToBase64(randomBytes(Math.ceil(Math.max(8, len * 2)))).replace(/[+/]/g, '').slice(0, len)

module.exports.uid = uid