IdentityManager

By default Mirage uses autoincrementing numbers starting with 1 as IDs for records. This can be customized by implementing one or more IdentityManagers for your application.

An IdentityManager is a class that's responsible for generating unique identifiers. You can define a custom identity manager for your entire application, as well as on a per-model basis.

A custom IdentityManager must implement these methods:

  • fetch, which must return an identifier not yet used
  • set, which is called with an id of a record being insert into Mirage's database
  • reset, which should reset database to initial state

Check out the advanced guide on Mocking UUIDs to see a complete example of a custom IdentityManager.

Methods

fetch(): String

Returns the next unique identifier.

reset(): any

Resets the identity manager, marking all unique identifiers as available.

set(uniqueIdentifier: String, Number): any

Registers uniqueIdentifier as used.

This method should throw is uniqueIdentifier has already been taken.