Class UniqueNameGenerator

Single source of truth for "make this name unique among the ones already taken" — the suffix loop that menu option ids, HUD element ids, leaderboard button ids, and audio mixer group names each hand-rolled with a slightly different separator, starting number, and bare-base-name policy. UniqueNameSuffixStyle captures exactly those three differences; comparisons are always ordinal, matching every site this replaces.

Inheritance

object

UniqueNameGenerator

Inherited Members

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

Namespace: Serenity.Shared.Utils

Assembly: Serenity.Shared.dll

Syntax

public static class UniqueNameGenerator

Methods

Next(string, IEnumerable<string>, UniqueNameSuffixStyle)

Returns the first candidate — the bare baseName when style allows it and it is free, otherwise baseName plus a growing numeric suffix starting at FirstSuffix — that is not present in takenNames. The search is unbounded: with a well-formed takenNames it always terminates, since one more suffix than takenNames has entries cannot already be taken.

Declaration

public static string Next(string baseName, IEnumerable<string> takenNames, UniqueNameSuffixStyle style)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
string	baseName	The desired name. A null is treated as empty, so an always-suffixed style still produces suffixed names ("_0", "_1", ...) rather than throwing.
IEnumerable<string>	takenNames	Names already in use. A null is treated as empty.
UniqueNameSuffixStyle	style	Separator, starting suffix, and bare-base-name policy to apply.

Returns

Type	Description
string