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ID.unique() is just producing a string of "unique()"

Dec 27, 2023, 17:12

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Maniac_FighterOriginal post

Oct 11, 2023, 09:59

ID.unique() indeed returns unique().
This when passed when creating a new document tells the server to generate a new ID for you. so in the response you would get the generated Id

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User is having trouble using ID.unique() to generate a unique ID for creating a user and a document with the same ID. They are asking how to set permissions for the document and use the same ID in the code. A solution is provided by using the ID generated from creating the user. The user tried inserting ID.unique() and "unique()" directly into the createDocument() but it didn't work. The response confirms that passing ID.unique() in createDocument() will generate a new ID for the document.

Rich

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Oct 11, 2023, 10:02

thanks I'll give it a try.

I did try inserting ID.unique() , and "unique()" directly into the createDocument() but neither worked.

Rich

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Oct 11, 2023, 10:02

actually, that's what I already had and it didn't work

Rich

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Oct 11, 2023, 10:04

i must be doing something silly - i'll try again

leonardorick

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Oct 20, 2023, 15:36

I'm facing this issue now. I wanted to create a user and a document with the same id, is that possible to really generate a unique id on the format that appwrite uses to I can reuse it?

Maniac_Fighter

Oct 20, 2023, 15:37

when you create a new user, it returns a a user model response. It contains the Id. Now you can use the same id to create a new document

leonardorick

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Oct 20, 2023, 16:22

Thanks @Maniac_Fighter. If I don't have the id created yet, how can I set the permissions of a document when creating it on the server? How can I use the same id on all placeholders on the below code

return await databases.createDocument(database, collectionUsers, <id>, {
      <id>,
      email,
      name,
    }, [
      Permission.read(Role.user(<id>)),
      Permission.write(Role.user(<id>)),
    ]);

Wintermutation

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Oct 21, 2023, 07:09

First you create the user with id="unique()" and the backend will replace this with the ID which you use in your subsequent createDocument call.

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return await databases.createDocument(database, collectionUsers, ID.unique(), data={"user_id" = user["$id"]}) ```

ID.unique() is just producing a string of "unique()"

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