fix(snowflake-id-decoder): decode per-platform bit layouts

Differential probing against platform documentation surfaced three
issues in the fixed Twitter-layout decoder:

- Mastodon ids are 48 bits of ms timestamp plus a 16-bit sequence, not
  the Twitter 42/5/5/12 layout - every decoded timestamp was wrong
- Instagram uses a 41-bit timestamp, 13-bit logical shard and 10-bit
  sequence, not 5/5/12 - shard and sequence widths were misread
- Discord names the middle fields worker/process while Twitter calls
  the same positions datacenter/worker; the tool showed Twitter labels
  for Discord ids

decodeSnowflake now takes the platform and decodes from its layout
descriptor; the UI renders the platform field names and bit budget.
Regression vectors: the Discord documented example, plus constructed
Instagram and Mastodon ids.
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import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
import { decodeSnowflake } from './snowflake-id-decoder.models';
import { SNOWFLAKE_PLATFORMS, decodeSnowflake } from './snowflake-id-decoder.models';
function platform(key: string) {
const found = SNOWFLAKE_PLATFORMS.find(p => p.key === key);
if (!found) {
throw new Error(`unknown platform ${key}`);
}
return found;
}
describe('snowflake-id-decoder', () => {
it('decodes a Twitter snowflake against the Twitter epoch', () => {
// 565419792856637440 was posted on 2015-02-09
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('565419792856637440', 1288834974657);
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('565419792856637440', platform('twitter'), platform('twitter').epoch);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(1423641558265);
expect(decoded.isoDate).toContain('2015-02-11');
});
it('decodes a Discord id against the Discord epoch', () => {
// Discord docs example: id 175928847299117063 -> 2016-04-30T11:18:25.796Z
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('175928847299117063', 1420070400000);
it('decodes the Discord documented example with worker/process naming', () => {
// https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#snowflakes-example-snowflake-decomposition
// 175928847299117063 -> 2016-04-30T11:18:25.796Z, worker 1, process 0, sequence 7
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('175928847299117063', platform('discord'), platform('discord').epoch);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(1462015105796);
expect(decoded.isoDate).toBe('2016-04-30 11:18:25 UTC');
expect(decoded.datacenterId).toBe(1);
expect(decoded.workerId).toBe(0);
expect(decoded.fields.find(f => f.label === 'Worker id')?.value).toBe(1);
expect(decoded.fields.find(f => f.label === 'Process id')?.value).toBe(0);
expect(decoded.sequence).toBe(7);
});
it('decodes Instagram shard/sequence with the 41/13/10 layout', () => {
const instagram = platform('instagram');
const id = ((185779978279n << 23n) | (5n << 10n) | 100n).toString();
const decoded = decodeSnowflake(id, instagram, instagram.epoch);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(1500000000000);
expect(decoded.fields.find(f => f.label === 'Shard id')?.value).toBe(5);
expect(decoded.sequence).toBe(100);
});
it('decodes Mastodon ids with the 48/16 layout', () => {
const id = ((1700000000000n << 16n) | 1234n).toString();
const decoded = decodeSnowflake(id, platform('mastodon'), 0);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(1700000000000);
expect(decoded.sequence).toBe(1234);
expect(decoded.fields).toHaveLength(0);
});
it('rejects non-numeric input', () => {
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('abc', 0)).toThrow('positive integer');
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('12 34', 0)).toThrow('positive integer');
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('-5', 0)).toThrow('positive integer');
const twitter = platform('twitter');
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('abc', twitter, twitter.epoch)).toThrow('positive integer');
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('12 34', twitter, twitter.epoch)).toThrow('positive integer');
expect(() => decodeSnowflake('-5', twitter, twitter.epoch)).toThrow('positive integer');
});
it('handles very large ids beyond Number safe range', () => {
// 2^63-1 must not lose precision
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('9223372036854775807', 0);
const decoded = decodeSnowflake('9223372036854775807', platform('twitter'), 0);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(Number(9223372036854775807n >> 22n));
});
it('extracts sequence bits', () => {
// 0b1 << 22 | sequence 0b101010101010
const id = ((1n << 22n) | 0b101010101010n).toString();
const decoded = decodeSnowflake(id, 0);
const decoded = decodeSnowflake(id, platform('twitter'), 0);
expect(decoded.sequence).toBe(0b101010101010);
});
it('custom epoch keeps the standard 64-bit layout', () => {
const custom = platform('custom');
const id = ((1000n << 22n) | (3n << 17n) | (2n << 12n) | 7n).toString();
const decoded = decodeSnowflake(id, custom, 5000);
expect(decoded.timestamp).toBe(6000);
expect(decoded.fields.find(f => f.label === 'Datacenter id')?.value).toBe(3);
expect(decoded.fields.find(f => f.label === 'Worker id')?.value).toBe(2);
expect(decoded.sequence).toBe(7);
});
});

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export interface SnowflakeFieldSpec {
label: string
bits: number
}
export interface SnowflakeLayout {
/** Human-readable bit budget, shown under the results. */
label: string
timestampBits: number
/** Middle fields in MSB→LSB order (between timestamp and sequence). */
fields: SnowflakeFieldSpec[]
sequenceBits: number
}
const STANDARD_64_BIT: SnowflakeLayout = {
label: '41-bit timestamp / 5-bit datacenter / 5-bit worker / 12-bit sequence',
timestampBits: 42,
fields: [
{ label: 'Datacenter id', bits: 5 },
{ label: 'Worker id', bits: 5 },
],
sequenceBits: 12,
};
export interface SnowflakePlatform {
key: string
label: string
epoch: number
layout: SnowflakeLayout
}
/** Well-known Snowflake epochs. Twitter uses a custom 41-bit timestamp; the
* others use the standard 64-bit layout with a platform-specific epoch. */
/** Well-known Snowflake variants. Twitter uses a custom 41-bit timestamp;
* Discord shares the Twitter bit layout but names the middle fields
* worker/process; Instagram shards with a 13-bit logical shard and a
* 10-bit sequence; Mastodon only packs 48 bits of ms timestamp plus a
* 16-bit sequence. */
export const SNOWFLAKE_PLATFORMS: SnowflakePlatform[] = [
{ key: 'twitter', label: 'Twitter / X', epoch: 1288834974657 },
{ key: 'discord', label: 'Discord', epoch: 1420070400000 },
{ key: 'instagram', label: 'Instagram', epoch: 1314220021721 },
{ key: 'mastodon', label: 'Mastodon', epoch: 0 },
{ key: 'custom', label: 'Custom epoch', epoch: 0 },
{
key: 'twitter',
label: 'Twitter / X',
epoch: 1288834974657,
layout: STANDARD_64_BIT,
},
{
key: 'discord',
label: 'Discord',
epoch: 1420070400000,
layout: {
label: '42-bit timestamp / 5-bit worker / 5-bit process / 12-bit sequence',
timestampBits: 42,
fields: [
{ label: 'Worker id', bits: 5 },
{ label: 'Process id', bits: 5 },
],
sequenceBits: 12,
},
},
{
key: 'instagram',
label: 'Instagram',
epoch: 1314220021721,
layout: {
label: '41-bit timestamp / 13-bit shard / 10-bit sequence',
timestampBits: 41,
fields: [
{ label: 'Shard id', bits: 13 },
],
sequenceBits: 10,
},
},
{
key: 'mastodon',
label: 'Mastodon',
epoch: 0,
layout: {
label: '48-bit timestamp / 16-bit sequence',
timestampBits: 48,
fields: [],
sequenceBits: 16,
},
},
{
key: 'custom',
label: 'Custom epoch',
epoch: 0,
layout: STANDARD_64_BIT,
},
];
export interface SnowflakeField {
label: string
value: number
}
export interface SnowflakeDecoded {
/** Millisecond Unix timestamp encoded in the id. */
timestamp: number
isoDate: string
/** Datacenter / worker / sequence when the platform uses the standard layout. */
workerId: number
datacenterId: number
layoutLabel: string
fields: SnowflakeField[]
sequence: number
}
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return BigInt(trimmed);
}
/** Standard 64-bit Snowflake: 1 unused sign bit, 41-bit ms timestamp,
* 5-bit datacenter, 5-bit worker, 12-bit sequence. */
export function decodeSnowflake(id: string, epoch: number): SnowflakeDecoded {
export function decodeSnowflake(id: string, platform: SnowflakePlatform, epoch: number): SnowflakeDecoded {
const value = parseSnowflakeId(id);
const timestamp = Number((value >> 22n) & 0x1FFFFFFFFFFFFn) + epoch;
const datacenterId = Number((value >> 17n) & 0x1Fn);
const workerId = Number((value >> 12n) & 0x1Fn);
const sequence = Number(value & 0xFFFn);
const { layout } = platform;
const middleBits = layout.fields.reduce((sum, field) => sum + field.bits, 0);
const timestampShift = BigInt(layout.sequenceBits + middleBits);
const timestampMask = (1n << BigInt(layout.timestampBits)) - 1n;
const timestamp = Number((value >> timestampShift) & timestampMask) + epoch;
let cursor = timestampShift;
const fields = layout.fields.map((field) => {
cursor -= BigInt(field.bits);
const mask = (1n << BigInt(field.bits)) - 1n;
return { label: field.label, value: Number((value >> cursor) & mask) };
});
const sequenceMask = (1n << BigInt(layout.sequenceBits)) - 1n;
const sequence = Number(value & sequenceMask);
const date = new Date(timestamp);
return {
timestamp,
isoDate: `${date.toISOString().replace('T', ' ').replace(/\..+/, '')} UTC`,
workerId,
datacenterId,
layoutLabel: layout.label,
fields,
sequence,
};
}

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});
const decoded = computed(() =>
withDefaultOnError(() => (id.value.trim() && validation.isValid ? decodeSnowflake(id.value, effectiveEpoch.value) : undefined), undefined),
withDefaultOnError(() => (id.value.trim() && validation.isValid ? decodeSnowflake(id.value, platform.value, effectiveEpoch.value) : undefined), undefined),
);
const epochOptions = SNOWFLAKE_PLATFORMS.map(p => ({ label: p.label, value: p.key }));
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</td>
<td>{{ decoded.isoDate }}</td>
</tr>
<tr v-if="platformKey !== 'twitter'">
<tr v-for="field in decoded.fields" :key="field.label">
<td class="labels">
Datacenter id:
{{ field.label }}:
</td>
<td>{{ decoded.datacenterId }}</td>
</tr>
<tr v-if="platformKey !== 'twitter'">
<td class="labels">
Worker id:
</td>
<td>{{ decoded.workerId }}</td>
<td>{{ field.value }}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="labels">
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</tbody>
</n-table>
<div mt-2 text-xs op-60>
Epoch: {{ effectiveEpoch }} ms · layout: 41-bit timestamp / 5-bit datacenter / 5-bit worker / 12-bit sequence
Epoch: {{ effectiveEpoch }} ms · layout: {{ decoded.layoutLabel }}
</div>
</c-card>
</div>