Use a string in the deviceID

[ElodieLam]

This request is related to my previous suggestion #207

Would it be possible to use a string in the deviceID?
In my customer context, every user is identified with a unique string identifier (Ex. Z1234567) or with the “Hostname” (Ex. INHL0007777) which are unfortunately alpha numeric characters.

Thank you!

[TheHighriser]

There has been an option in older version of OpenKit Java but this is no longer available. In general the customer can of course use his own hashing mechanism. But they should probably go with a (explicit) hashing that is reversable so later on they can go from the internal user id to the actually string identifier.