uuid

Documentation

Overview

Package uuid can be used to generate 128 bit UUIDs compatible with rfc4122. Currently, only version 4 UUIDs, UUIDs generated from random data, can be created. The package includes functions for generating UUIDs and for converting them to and from strings.

Index

• Variables
• type UUID
  • func Generate() UUID
  • func Parse(s string) (UUID, error)
  • func (u UUID) String() string

Variables

var (
	// ErrUUIDInvalid indicates that a UIID is invalid.  Currently,
	// returned by uuid.Parse if the string passed to this function
	// does not contain a valid UUID.
	ErrUUIDInvalid = errors.New("invalid uuid")
)

Types

type UUID

type UUID [16]byte

UUID represents a single 128 bit UUID as an array of 16 bytes.

func Generate

func Generate() UUID

Generate generates a new v4 UUID, i.e., a random UUID.

func Parse

func Parse(s string) (UUID, error)

Parse returns the binary encoding of the UUID passed in the s parameter. The error ErrUUIDInvalid will be returned if s does not represent a valid UUID.

func (UUID) String

func (u UUID) String() string