uuid

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uuid

It uses UUID Version 5, based on SHA-1 hashing (RFC 4122).

Documentation

Overview

Package uuid provides the UUID type and helper functions.

Index

• func Canonical(b []byte) string
• type UUID
  • func New(input string) UUID
  • func (u UUID) String() string

Functions

func Canonical

func Canonical(b []byte) string

Canonical converts an array of bytes into the canonical representation of UUID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Mxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. The one to three most significant bits of digit N indicate the UUID variant and the four bits of digit M indicate the UUID version.

Types

type UUID

type UUID string

UUID is a type used as identifier, compliant with Version 5 of RFC 4122: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

func New

func New(input string) UUID

New creates a new UUID given a string.

func (UUID) String

func (u UUID) String() string

String returns a string representation of the UUID, implementing the Stringer interface.