bungle / lua-resty-random

LuaJIT FFI-based Random Library for OpenResty.

lua-resty-random

lua-resty-random is a random library for OpenResty.

This library works only in OpenResty (or Nginx with Lua module) that has OpenSSL support.

Hello World with lua-resty-random

local random = require "resty.random"
-- Get two random bytes
local bytes = random.bytes(2)
-- Get two random bytes hexadecimal encoded
local hxbts = random.bytes(2, 'hex')
-- Get random number
local numbr = random.number(1, 10)
-- Get random token (by default uses A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 chars)
local token = random.token(10)

About The Internals

For random bytes lua-resty-random uses OpenSSL RAND_bytes that is included in OpenResty (or Nginx) when compiled with OpenSSL. For random numbers the library uses Lua's math.random, and math.randomseed. You should note that on LuaJIT environment, LuaJIT uses a Tausworthe PRNG with period 2^223 to implement math.random and math.randomseed. Hexadecimal dumps are implemented using ngx_hex_dump.

Lua API

string random.bytes(len, format)

Returns len number of random bytes using OpenSSL RAND_bytes. You may optionally pass "hex" as format argument if you want random bytes hexadecimal encoded.

Example

local random = require "resty.random"
print(random.bytes(10))
print(random.bytes(10, "hex")

number random.number(min, max, reseed)

Returns random number between min and max (including min and max). You may optionally pass true as reseed argument if you want to reseend random number generator (normally not needed, and random number generator is seeded once when you do require "resty.random".

Example

local random = require "resty.random"
print(random.number(1, 10))
print(random.number(1, 10, true))

string random.token(len, chars, sep)

Returns random token consisting of chars (by default it uses A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 as chars). You may also pass a string as a separator with sep argument.

Example

local random = require "resty.random"
print(random.token(10))
print(random.token(10, "ABCD"))
print(random.token(10, { "A", "B", "C", "D" }))
print(random.token(10, { "Ford", "Audi", "Mustang", "A6" }, " "))

License

lua-resty-random uses two clause BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2013, Aapo Talvensaari
All rights reserved.

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