Can the auto-generated Id be used for file name?

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Hi All,
I would like to use the ID of the doc as a file name. Is that safe ?
Can it happen that i encounter strings with chars that are not allowed on some platforms ?

I will use that on Linux.

Thanks

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See https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/index/IndexRequest.java#L631 then https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/UUIDs.java#L34 then https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/TimeBasedUUIDGenerator.java#L59

when you follow you will see that this is a base64 string like JfzsbW0B6_WbAWCTv4io...

however there are no guarantees that this will stay the same forever, as this can be considered an internal implementation detail.

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