From d6cf2de4abd55917e4f5b390e0521e8b201e9b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Korina Cordero <cordero.korina@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 08:33:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Create service to generate a unique id. #638

---
 src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php

diff --git a/src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php b/src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c0a91d0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Service;
+
+use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
+
+class UniqueIdGenerator
+{
+    protected $em;
+
+    public function __construct(EntityManagerInterface $em)
+    {
+        $this->em = $em;
+    }
+
+    public function generateUniqueId($str_length)
+    {
+        // TODO: retry until we get a unique id
+
+        return substr(md5(time()), 0, $str_length);
+    }
+}