Move nanoid generator to lib

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/generator.ts b/src/util/generator.ts
index c3712c1..882f114 100644
--- a/src/util/generator.ts
+++ b/src/util/generator.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 import crypto from "crypto";
 
+import { customAlphabet } from "nanoid";
+// This alphabet (used to generate all event, group, etc. IDs) is missing '-'
+// because ActivityPub doesn't like it in IDs
+const nanoid = customAlphabet(
+    "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_",
+    21,
+);
+
 const generateAlphanumericString = (length: number) => {
     return Array(length)
         .fill(0)
@@ -7,6 +15,8 @@ const generateAlphanumericString = (length: number) => {
         .join("");
 };
 
+export const generateEventID = () => nanoid();
+
 export const generateEditToken = () => generateAlphanumericString(32);
 
 export const generateRSAKeypair = () => {