async idGenerator

[ryanleecode]

Is there any drawbacks to making the idGenerator async? For example I might want to use the web crypto api and do a sha256 hash to generate the id but that function is async.

crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', ...)

[oliver-oloughlin]

The reason an id generator cannot be async right now is because it is used when setting new entries within an atomic operation, where the actual set/add calls are non-async. I do however have a theoretical solution to this that I am planning to look into. The exact same restriction applies to serialize/compress functions, which is a blocker for some serialization and compression methods I would like to support.

[oliver-oloughlin]

Feel free to open an issue on this btw