snowflake-based invite generation

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/util/src/util/Snowflake.ts b/util/src/util/Snowflake.ts
index 3f6e3c63..134d526e 100644
--- a/util/src/util/Snowflake.ts
+++ b/util/src/util/Snowflake.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export class Snowflake {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * A Twitter snowflake, except the epoch is 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
+	 * A Twitter-like snowflake, except the epoch is 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
 	 * ```
 	 * If we have a snowflake '266241948824764416' we can represent it as binary:
 	 *
@@ -83,14 +83,17 @@ export class Snowflake {
 		return dec;
 	}
 
-	static generate() {
+	static generateWorkerProcess() { // worker process - returns a number
 		var time = BigInt(Date.now() - Snowflake.EPOCH) << BigInt(22);
 		var worker = Snowflake.workerId << 17n;
 		var process = Snowflake.processId << 12n;
 		var increment = Snowflake.INCREMENT++;
-		return (time | worker | process | increment).toString();
+		return BigInt(time | worker | process | increment);
+	}
+	
+	static generate() {
+		return Snowflake.generateWorkerProcess().toString();
 	}
-
 	/**
 	 * A deconstructed snowflake.
 	 * @typedef {Object} DeconstructedSnowflake