Why no d/squuid in datomic client api

Client API
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I’ve been upgrading to Datomic cloud and noticed that the datomic.client.api has no d/squuid function. I’ve been switching to use java.util.UUID/randomUUID.

Two questions:

  1. Why is d/squuid not present in the datomic.client.api?
  2. Is it safe to use java.util.UUID/randomUUiD?
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Squuids are no longer required in Datomic (Cloud or On-Prem) now that Datomic has Adaptive Indexing.
See discussion from Stu here and blog post about Adaptive Indexing

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The on-prem documentation says to prefer squuids when possible. Is this still true, or is the documentation lagging behind a bit?

https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/identity.html#sec-6

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Certainly, using squuids will not hurt anything, however adaptive indexing should negate the need to use squuids.

I will look into fixing the documentation.

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