Eu escrevi uma aula especificamente para fazer isso. É inicializado com uma parte "base" (o padrão é um carimbo de data / hora com precisão de minutos) e depois acrescenta letras para criar nomes exclusivos. Portanto, se o primeiro carimbo gerado for 1907101215a, o segundo seria 1907101215b, 1907101215c, etc.
Se eu precisar de mais de 25 selos exclusivos, utilizarei z unários para contar 25. Então, ele vai 1907101215y, 1907101215za, 1907101215zb, ... 1907101215zy, 1907101215zza, 1907101215zzb e assim por diante. Isso garante que os carimbos sempre sejam classificados alfanumericamente na ordem em que foram gerados (desde que o próximo caractere após o carimbo não seja uma letra).
Não é seguro para threads, não atualiza automaticamente a hora e incha rapidamente se você precisar de centenas de carimbos, mas acho que é suficiente para minhas necessidades.
/// <summary>
/// Class for generating unique stamps (for filenames, etc.)
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Each time ToString() is called, a unique stamp is generated.
/// Stamps are guaranteed to sort alphanumerically in order of generation.
/// </remarks>
public class StampGenerator
{
/// <summary>
/// All the characters which could be the last character in the stamp.
/// </summary>
private static readonly char[] _trailingChars =
{
'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j',
'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't',
'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y'
};
/// <summary>
/// How many valid trailing characters there are.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Should always equal _trailingChars.Length</remarks>
public const int TRAILING_RANGE = 25;
/// <summary>
/// Maximum length of the stamp. Hard-coded for laziness.
/// </summary>
public const int MAX_LENGTH_STAMP = 28;
/// <summary>
/// Base portion of the stamp. Will be constant between calls.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This is intended to uniquely distinguish between instances.
/// Default behavior is to generate a minute-accurate timestamp.
/// </remarks>
public string StampBase { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Number of times this instance has been called.
/// </summary>
public int CalledTimes { get; private set; }
/// <summary>
/// Maximum number of stamps that can be generated with a given base.
/// </summary>
public int MaxCalls { get; }
/// <summary>
/// Number of stamps remaining for this instance.
/// </summary>
public int RemainingCalls { get { return MaxCalls - CalledTimes; } }
/// <summary>
/// Instantiate a StampGenerator with a specific base.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="stampBase">Base of stamp.</param>
/// <param name="calledTimes">
/// Number of times this base has already been used.
/// </param>
public StampGenerator(string stampBase, int calledTimes = 0)
{
if (stampBase == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("stampBase");
}
else if (Regex.IsMatch(stampBase, "[^a-zA-Z_0-9 \\-]"))
{
throw new ArgumentException("Invalid characters in Stamp Base.",
"stampBase");
}
else if (stampBase.Length >= MAX_LENGTH_STAMP - 1)
{
throw new ArgumentException(
string.Format("Stamp Base too long. (Length {0} out of {1})",
stampBase.Length, MAX_LENGTH_STAMP - 1), "stampBase");
}
else if (calledTimes < 0)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(
"calledTimes", calledTimes, "calledTimes cannot be negative.");
}
else
{
int maxCalls = TRAILING_RANGE * (MAX_LENGTH_STAMP - stampBase.Length);
if (calledTimes >= maxCalls)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(
"calledTimes", calledTimes, string.Format(
"Called Times too large; max for stem of length {0} is {1}.",
stampBase.Length, maxCalls));
}
else
{
StampBase = stampBase;
CalledTimes = calledTimes;
MaxCalls = maxCalls;
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Instantiate a StampGenerator with default base string based on time.
/// </summary>
public StampGenerator() : this(DateTime.Now.ToString("yMMddHHmm")) { }
/// <summary>
/// Generate a unique stamp.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Stamp values are orered like this:
/// a, b, ... x, y, za, zb, ... zx, zy, zza, zzb, ...
/// </remarks>
/// <returns>A unique stamp.</returns>
public override string ToString()
{
int zCount = CalledTimes / TRAILING_RANGE;
int trailing = CalledTimes % TRAILING_RANGE;
int length = StampBase.Length + zCount + 1;
if (length > MAX_LENGTH_STAMP)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(
"Stamp length overflown! Cannot generate new stamps.");
}
else
{
CalledTimes = CalledTimes + 1;
var builder = new StringBuilder(StampBase, length);
builder.Append('z', zCount);
builder.Append(_trailingChars[trailing]);
return builder.ToString();
}
}
}