From 1dff92d981d82258fee66501a790473050b1f1e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <iamreiver@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 16:49:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] initial commits

---
 serialize.go | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/serialize.go b/serialize.go
index 5921167..08ccf5d 100644
--- a/serialize.go
+++ b/serialize.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	serializationprefix = "x"
+	serializationsuffix = ".id"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ func serialize(value uint64) string {
 		wc.Close()
 
 	}
+	{
+		encoded.WriteString(serializationsuffix)
+	}
 
 	return encoded.String()
 }
@@ -60,6 +64,14 @@ func unserialize(value string) (uint64, bool) {
 		value = value[len(serializationprefix):]
 	}
 
+	{
+		if !strings.HasSuffix(value, serializationsuffix) {
+			return badvalue, false
+		}
+
+		value = value[:len(value)-len(serializationsuffix)]
+	}
+
 	var p []byte
 	{
 		var err error