Add index for generated id. Add checking for duplicate generated ids. #638

src/Entity/Customer.php

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ use App\Ramcar\CustomerClassification;
  * @ORM\Table(name="customer", indexes={
  *     @ORM\Index(name="phone_mobile_idx", columns={"phone_mobile"}),
  *     @ORM\Index(columns={"first_name"}, flags={"fulltext"}),
- *     @ORM\Index(columns={"last_name"}, flags={"fulltext"})
+ *     @ORM\Index(columns={"last_name"}, flags={"fulltext"}),
+       @ORM\Index(name="generated_id_idx", columns={"generated_id"})
  * })
  */
 class Customer
@@ -683,4 +684,15 @@ class Customer
         return $this->car_club_customer_hub;
     }
 
+    public function setGeneratedID($generated_id)
+    {
+        $this->generated_id = $generated_id;
+        return $this;
+    }
+
+    public function getGeneratedID()
+    {
+        return $this->generated_id;
+    }
+
 }

src/Service/UniqueIdGenerator.php

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ namespace App\Service;
 
 use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
 
+use App\Entity\Customer;
+
 class UniqueIdGenerator
 {
     protected $em;
@@ -15,22 +17,21 @@ class UniqueIdGenerator
 
     public function generateCustomerUniqueId($str_length)
     {
-        // retry until we get a unique id
+        $em = $this->em;
+
+        // retry until we find no customer with the generated id
         while (true)
         {
-            try
-            {
-            }
-            catch (DBALException $e)
-            {
-                error_log($e->getMessage());
-                // delay one second and try again
-                sleep(1);
-                continue;
-            }
+            // generate the id
+            $generated_id = $this->generateUniqueId($str_length);
 
-            break;
+            // check if generated id already exists
+            $cust = $em->getRepository(Customer::class)->findOneBy(['generated_id' => $generated_id]);
+
+            if ($cust == null)
+                return $generated_id;
         }
+
     }
 
     protected function generateUniqueId($str_length)