bson_oid_init_sequence(3)

bson_oid_init_sequence()

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Description

BSON_OID_INIT_SEQUENCE

NAME

bson_oid_init_sequence - bson_oid_init_sequence()

SYNOPSIS

void
bson_oid_init_sequence (bson_oid_t *oid,
bson_context_t *context) BSON_GNUC_DEPRECATED;

PARAMETERS

oid: A bson_oid_t.

context: An optional bson_context_t.

DESCRIPTION

Generates a new ObjectID with the next 64-bit sequence number in context. The first 4 bytes contain the current time and the following 8 contain the sequence number in big-endian format.

The bson_oid_t generated by this function is not guaranteed to be globally unique. Only unique within this context. It is however, guaranteed to be sequential.

WARNING:

DEPRECATED: This function provides no additional value compared to bson_oid_init(). It will be removed in libbson 2.0.

AUTHOR

MongoDB, Inc

COPYRIGHT

2017-present, MongoDB, Inc