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UUID - Node.js SDK

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New in version 10.5.0.

Overview

UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) is a 16-byte unique value. You can use UUID as an identifier for objects. UUID is indexable and you can use it as a primary key.

Note

Using UUID Instead of ObjectId

In general, you can use UUID for any fields that function as a unique identifier. Using UUID might be particularly useful if you are migrating data not stored in MongoDB since it is likely that your object's unique identifiers are already of a UUID type. Alternatively, using ObjectId might be useful for a collection of data that already exists in MongoDB.

Usage

To define a property as a UUID, set its type to the string "uuid" in your object model. Create a Realm object within a write transaction. To set any unique identifier properties of your object to a random value, call new UUID(). Alternatively, pass a string to new UUID() to set the unique identifier property to a specific value.

const { UUID } = Realm.BSON;
const ProfileSchema = {
  name: "Profile",
  primaryKey: "_id",
  properties: {
    _id: "uuid",
    name: "string",
  },
};
const realm = await Realm.open({
  path: "realm-files/data-type-realm",
  schema: [ProfileSchema],
});
realm.write(() => {
  realm.create("Profile", {
    name: "John Doe.",
    _id: new UUID(), // create a _id with a randomly generated UUID
  });
  realm.create("Profile", {
    name: "Tim Doe.",
    _id: new UUID("882dd631-bc6e-4e0e-a9e8-f07b685fec8c"), // create a _id with a specific UUID value
  });
});
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