New gun does not expose text.random()

services/gunDB/contact-api/actions.js

@@ -818,8 +818,7 @@ const createPostNew = async (tags, title, content) => {
   const mySecret = require('../Mediator').getMySecret()
 
   await Common.Utils.asyncForEach(content, async c => {
-    // @ts-expect-error
-    const uuid = Gun.text.random()
+    const uuid = Utils.gunID()
     newPost.contentItems[uuid] = c
     if (
       (c.type === 'image/embedded' || c.type === 'video/embedded') &&

services/gunDB/contact-api/jobs/onOrders.js

@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ const listenerForAddr = (addr, SEA) => async (order, orderID) => {
     logger.info(
       `onOrders() -> Will now place the encrypted invoice in order to response usergraph: ${addr}`
     )
-    //@ts-expect-error
-    const ackNode = Gun.text.random()
+
+    const ackNode = Utils.gunID()
 
     /** @type {import('shock-common').Schema.OrderResponse} */
     const orderResponse = {

services/gunDB/contact-api/utils/index.js

@@ -233,6 +233,21 @@ const isNodeOnline = async pub => {
   )
 }
 
+/**
+ * @returns {string}
+ */
+const gunID = () => {
+  // Copied from gun internals
+  let s = ''
+  let l = 24 // you are not going to make a 0 length random number, so no need to check type
+  const c = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+  while (l > 0) {
+    s += c.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * c.length))
+    l--
+  }
+  return s
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   dataHasSoul,
   delay,
@@ -242,5 +257,6 @@ module.exports = {
   promisifyGunNode: require('./promisifygun'),
   timeout5,
   timeout2,
-  isNodeOnline
+  isNodeOnline,
+  gunID
 }

services/gunDB/contact-api/utils/index.spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/**
+ * @format
+ */
+const expect = require('expect')
+
+const { gunID } = require('./index')
+
+describe('gunID()', () => {
+  it('generates 24-chars-long unique IDs', () => {
+    const id = gunID()
+    expect(id).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(id.length).toBe(24)
+  })
+})

services/gunDB/rpc/index.js

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const {
   $$__SHOCKWALLET__ENCRYPTED__
 } = require('../Mediator')
 const logger = require('../../../config/log')
+const Utils = require('../contact-api/utils')
 /**
  * @typedef {import('../contact-api/SimpleGUN').ValidDataValue} ValidDataValue
  * @typedef {import('./types').ValidRPCDataValue} ValidRPCDataValue
@@ -266,8 +267,7 @@ async function set(rawPath, value) {
   if (Array.isArray(theValue)) {
     // we'll create a set of sets
 
-    // @ts-expect-error
-    const uuid = Gun.text.random()
+    const uuid = Utils.gunID()
 
     // here we are simulating the top-most set()
     const subPath = rawPath + PATH_SEPARATOR + uuid
@@ -278,8 +278,7 @@ async function set(rawPath, value) {
 
     return uuid
   } else if (Schema.isObj(theValue)) {
-    // @ts-expect-error
-    const uuid = Gun.text.random() // we'll handle UUID ourselves
+    const uuid = Utils.gunID() // we'll handle UUID ourselves
 
     // so we can use our own put()
 

utils/GunSmith/GunSmith.js

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 // @ts-check
 /// <reference path="Smith.ts" />
 /// <reference path="GunT.ts" />
-const RealGun = require('gun')
 const uuid = require('uuid/v1')
 const mapValues = require('lodash/mapValues')
 const { fork } = require('child_process')
@@ -16,12 +15,15 @@ const logger = require('../../config/log')
 const { mergePuts, isPopulated } = require('./misc')
 
 const gunUUID = () => {
-  const RG = /** @type {any} */ (RealGun)
-  if (typeof RG.text === 'object' && typeof RG.text.random === 'function') {
-    return RG.text.random()
+  // Copied from gun internals
+  let s = ''
+  let l = 24 // you are not going to make a 0 length random number, so no need to check type
+  const c = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+  while (l > 0) {
+    s += c.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * c.length))
+    l--
   }
-  // This probably won't happen
-  throw new ReferenceError()
+  return s
 }
 
 /**

utils/GunSmith/GunSmith.spec.js

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ const instance = Gun({
 })
 
 const user = instance.user()
-const alias = words()
-const pass = words()
+const alias = words({ exactly: 2 }).join('')
+const pass = words({ exactly: 2 }).join('')
 
 /**
  * @param {number} ms

utils/index.js

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /**
  * @format
  */
-const Gun = require('gun')
 
 const { asyncFilter } = require('./helpers')
 
@@ -9,10 +8,15 @@ const { asyncFilter } = require('./helpers')
  * @returns {string}
  */
 const gunUUID = () => {
-  // @ts-expect-error Not typed
-  const uuid = Gun.text.random()
-
-  return uuid
+  // Copied from gun internals
+  let s = ''
+  let l = 24 // you are not going to make a 0 length random number, so no need to check type
+  const c = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+  while (l > 0) {
+    s += c.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * c.length))
+    l--
+  }
+  return s
 }
 
 module.exports = {