🔢 Auto-Increment IDs

Need sequential IDs like in SQL? Cascade's auto-increment feature gives you easy, reliable, and unique numbers for your documents! 🔥

🚦 How It Works

Cascade manages a special counter collection behind the scenes. Every time you create a new document, it grabs the next number for you—no collisions, no worries!

🏗️ Enabling Auto-Increment

Just set autoIncrement = true in your model:

src/models/order.ts

import { Model } from "@warlock.js/cascade";

export class Order extends Model {
  public static collection = "orders";
  public autoIncrement = true;
}

🧙‍♂️ Pro Tip: Custom Start Value

You can set a custom starting value:

src/models/order.ts

public autoIncrement = { start: 1000 };

⚠️ Gotchas

• Auto-increment is great for user-facing IDs, but not for sharding or distributed writes.
• Use MongoDB's ObjectId for globally unique IDs.

info

Auto-increment works perfectly with all Cascade features—casting, events, and more!

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🌟 What's Next?

• 🧠 Master-Mind Pattern