Determinism

[shargon]

Hi, it's possible to generate two files with same data in different times, and be exactly the same as binary level?

Thanks.

[michelebastione]

Hello @shargon, unless your data source contains dates or other types of volatile data the generated document should be consistent. Do you have evidence to the contrary? If so please provide a minimum reproducible sample that we can investigate.

[shargon]

Yes, a hardcoded example produce different binaries, probably because inside the zip it has the creation time?

[michelebastione]

Actually after investigating it a little more I did encounter a slight issue that impacts the consistency of the generated excel files, i'll try to find a solution but even then this won't solve your problem, because as you pointed out the metadata of the files will be different. We don't offer that granular of a control over the internals of the documents so you will still have to edit those informations manually.

[shargon]

Thanks for your time