What is the best way to generate a unique and short file name in Java

Question

I don\'t necessarily want to use UUIDs since they are fairly long.

The file just needs to be unique within its directory.

One thought which comes to mind is

Answer 1

Why not use synchronized to process multi thread. here is my solution,It's can generate a short file name , and it's unique.

private static synchronized String generateFileName(){
    String name = make(index);
    index ++;
    return name;
}
private static String make(int index) {
    if(index == 0) return "";
    return String.valueOf(chars[index % chars.length]) + make(index / chars.length);
}
private static int index = 1;
private static char[] chars = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g',
        'h','i','j','k','l','m','n',
        'o','p','q','r','s','t',
        'u','v','w','x','y','z'};

blew is main function for test , It's work.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    List names = new ArrayList<>();
    List threads = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
        Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
                    String name = generateFileName();
                    names.add(name);
                }
            }
        });
        thread.run();
        threads.add(thread);
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        try {
            threads.get(i).join();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    System.out.println(names);
    System.out.println(names.size());

}