Ulid package for Zig

This is a simple package for Zig projects that implements ULID as an enum with convenience methods. Includes methods for std.json to en-/decode as a string, e.g. "01JT9B27HTN19SEWVMWXRDRVC4".

• API docs

Usage

const Ulid = @import("ulid").Ulid;

// generate a new ulid // we default to non-monotonic mode
var ulid = Ulid.generate(.{}) catch unreachable;

// for monotonic mode, guaranteeing ulid to be "higher" than all previous. See api doc
var ulid = try Ulid.generate(.{ .monotonic_mode = true });

// parse a ulid from a string
var ulid = try Ulid.from_string("01JT9B27HTN19SEWVMWXRDRVC4");

// encode a ulid to a string
var buffer: [26]u8 = @splat(0);
ulid.to_string(&buffer); // overwrites the bytes of the buffer with the string and returns the string

// compare two ulids
if (ulid1 == ulid2) {
	// this 👆 is allowed; they're enums after all
}

Installation

The normal procedure:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/jkoop/ulid-zig/archive/COMMIT.zip

// build.zig before b.installArtifact(exe);

const ulid = b.dependency("ulid", .{
    .target = target,
    .optimize = optimize,
}).module("ulid");

exe.root_module.addImport("ulid", ulid);