Snowflake

Snowflake

Represents a Snowflake, a unique identifier used in distributed systems.

Kind: global class

• Snowflake
  • .deconstruct(snowflake) ⇒ Object
  • .generate([timestamp]) ⇒ string

Snowflake.deconstruct(snowflake) ⇒ Object

Deconstructs a Discord snowflake into its individual components.

Kind: static method of Snowflake
Returns: Object - An object containing the deconstructed components of the snowflake:

• createdAt: The date and time when the snowflake was created.
• timestamp: The timestamp of the snowflake.
• workerId: The ID of the worker that generated the snowflake.
• processId: The ID of the process that generated the snowflake.
• increment: The increment portion of the snowflake.
• binary: The binary representation of the snowflake.

Param	Type	Description
snowflake	string	The snowflake to deconstruct.

Snowflake.generate([timestamp]) ⇒ string

Generates a unique ID based on the given timestamp.

Kind: static method of Snowflake
Returns: string - - The generated unique ID.
Throws:

• TypeError - If the timestamp is not a number or a valid Date object.

Param	Type	Default	Description
[timestamp]	number | Date	Date.now()	The timestamp to generate the ID from.