SanderSade.UrlShortener 1.0.0

dotnet add package SanderSade.UrlShortener --version 1.0.0                
NuGet\Install-Package SanderSade.UrlShortener -Version 1.0.0                
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="SanderSade.UrlShortener" Version="1.0.0" />                
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add SanderSade.UrlShortener --version 1.0.0                
#r "nuget: SanderSade.UrlShortener, 1.0.0"                
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install SanderSade.UrlShortener as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=SanderSade.UrlShortener&version=1.0.0

// Install SanderSade.UrlShortener as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=SanderSade.UrlShortener&version=1.0.0                

The main purpose of the UrlShortener is to shorten in the URLs.

Great many sites, such as reddit, TinyUrl, bit.ly, goo.gl, t.co (Twitter) and Flickr, have a short alphanumeric ID (76pb94) instead of a long numeric value (434521912) in the URL. This makes the link shorter, easier for the user to see the differences in the URL - and it simply looks better, too.

There are two ways to achieve this. You can generate a string suitable for display and store it along with ID, or just store the numeric ID and convert the number to a string token and back. UrlShortener is intended to do the latter while giving more control to the developer than other similar libraries.

In addition, as a side-effect of the URL shortening functionality, UrlShortener can convert from any positional mathematical base system to decimal and back.

Features

  • Support for full Int64 range
    Many URL shortening libraries either support just Int32 values (which a popular website will use up in a few months - or less), or just positive numbers. UrlShortener supports full Int64 range, from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.
  • Full control of the used characters
    Most URL shortening libraries allow to use just a fixed set of characters - usually a..z, or 0..z. UrlShortener not only has multiple predefined common character sets, but also lets you to define any characters you want, in any order you want. You can do "012345" as your base or "123qwe" - both are properly handled as base 6. Or, for example, use the reversed decimal base, "9876543210".
  • Includes common bases/character sets
    UrlShortener includes more than 20 of common character sets/bases, including base 36, base64url (RFC4648), multiple variants of base 62, RFC3986-compliant base 65, base 12 (Unicode and non-Unicode versions) and many more - see CharacterSet.cs.
  • Unicode support
    I really don't recommend the use of Unicode for URL shortening, but should you want to use Internationalized Resource Identifiers (RFC3987) or use base 12 Unicode version, UrlShortener supports Unicode characters.
  • Input validation
    There are some libraries that don't validate characters when converting to decimal. Depending on the algorithm used, this may return an invalid base-10 value without any errors. UrlShortener validates the input against your defined character set, and throws ApplicationException() if it contains invalid characters.
  • Fast
    • Converting 10 000 000 decimal items (starting from int.MaxValue, or 2 147 483 647) to base 36 (0..9, a..z) took 00:00:05.9824399, or about 1.7M operations per second.
    • Converting 10 000 000 base 36 items to decimal (using resulting values from previous test) took 00:00:05.1318302.
      The tests were done on a not-all-that-powerful laptop, and used sequential values, both of which affect the results - but they are a good indicator that performance really isn't something to worry about.
  • Sequence functionality
    You can declare a starting decimal number in UrlShortener constructor (defaults to 0) and get sequential values in specified base calling Next. This is fully thread-safe, but the numbers are per UrlShortener instance (the library is intended to be used one-instance-per-base in your application/website).
    This should not be considered an alternative for database or other real sequence, but can be useful for unit or integration tests.
    UrlShortener also has Current and Previous properties, latter moves the current to previous value, e.g. Current becomes Current - 1.
  • .NET Standard 2.0
    .NET Standard 2.0 means this library can be used with .NET Framework 4.6.1+, .NET Core 2.0 and more - see here for detailed information.
Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net5.0 was computed.  net5.0-windows was computed.  net6.0 was computed.  net6.0-android was computed.  net6.0-ios was computed.  net6.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net6.0-macos was computed.  net6.0-tvos was computed.  net6.0-windows was computed.  net7.0 was computed.  net7.0-android was computed.  net7.0-ios was computed.  net7.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net7.0-macos was computed.  net7.0-tvos was computed.  net7.0-windows was computed.  net8.0 was computed.  net8.0-android was computed.  net8.0-browser was computed.  net8.0-ios was computed.  net8.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net8.0-macos was computed.  net8.0-tvos was computed.  net8.0-windows was computed. 
.NET Core netcoreapp2.0 was computed.  netcoreapp2.1 was computed.  netcoreapp2.2 was computed.  netcoreapp3.0 was computed.  netcoreapp3.1 was computed. 
.NET Standard netstandard2.0 is compatible.  netstandard2.1 was computed. 
.NET Framework net461 was computed.  net462 was computed.  net463 was computed.  net47 was computed.  net471 was computed.  net472 was computed.  net48 was computed.  net481 was computed. 
MonoAndroid monoandroid was computed. 
MonoMac monomac was computed. 
MonoTouch monotouch was computed. 
Tizen tizen40 was computed.  tizen60 was computed. 
Xamarin.iOS xamarinios was computed. 
Xamarin.Mac xamarinmac was computed. 
Xamarin.TVOS xamarintvos was computed. 
Xamarin.WatchOS xamarinwatchos was computed. 
Compatible target framework(s)
Included target framework(s) (in package)
Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.
  • .NETStandard 2.0

    • No dependencies.

NuGet packages

This package is not used by any NuGet packages.

GitHub repositories

This package is not used by any popular GitHub repositories.

Version Downloads Last updated
1.0.0 28,845 10/20/2017