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6 OSSP::uuid - OSSP uuid Perl Binding
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9 OSSP uuid is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API) and
10 corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE
11 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 compliant Universally Unique Iden‐
12 tifier (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and
13 node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number
14 based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are
15 provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and PHP:4/5. Optional
16 backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C DCE-1.1 and Perl Data::UUID
17 APIs.
18 OSSP::uuid is the Perl binding to the OSSP uuid API. Three variants
20 are provided:
21 TIE-STYLE API
23 The TIE-style API is a functionality-reduced wrapper around the OO-
25 style API and intended for very high-level convenience programming:
26 "use OSSP::uuid;"
28 tie" my $uuid, 'OSSP::uuid::tie', $mode, ...;"
29 "$uuid = [ $mode, ... ];"
30 "print "UUID=$uuid\n";"
31 "untie $uuid;"
32 OO-STYLE API
34 The OO-style API is a wrapper around the C-style API and intended for
36 high-level regular programming.
37 "use OSSP::uuid;"
39 "my $uuid = "new" OSSP::uuid;"
40 "$uuid->"load"($name);"
41 "$uuid->"make"($mode, ...);"
42 "$result = $uuid->"isnil"();"
43 "$result = $uuid->"compare"($uuid2);"
44 "$uuid->"import"($fmt, $data_ptr);"
45 "$data_ptr = $uuid->"export"($fmt);"
46 "[(]$str[, $rc)] = $uuid->"error"();"
47 "$ver = $uuid->"version"();"
48 "undef $uuid;"
49 Additionally, the strings "v1", "v3", "v4", "v5" and "mc" can be used
51 in $mode and the strings "bin", "str", and "txt" can be used for $fmt.
52 C-STYLE API
54 The C-style API is a direct mapping of the OSSP uuid ISO-C API to Perl
56 and is intended for low-level programming. See uuid(3) for a descrip‐
57 tion of the functions and their expected arguments.
58 "use OSSP::uuid qw(:all);"
60 "my $uuid; $rc = "uuid_create"($uuid);"
61 "$rc = "uuid_load"($uuid, $name);"
62 "$rc = "uuid_make"($uuid, $mode, ...);"
63 "$rc = "uuid_isnil"($uuid, $result);"
64 "$rc = "uuid_compare"($uuid, $uuid2, $result);"
65 "$rc = "uuid_import"($uuid, $fmt, $data_ptr, $data_len);"
66 "$rc = "uuid_export"($uuid, $fmt, $data_ptr, $data_len);"
67 "$str = "uuid_error"($rc);"
68 "$ver = "uuid_version"();"
69 "$rc = "uuid_destroy"($uuid);"
70 Additionally, the following constants are exported for use in $rc,
72 $mode, $fmt and $ver:
73 "UUID_VERSION", "UUID_LEN_BIN", "UUID_LEN_STR", "UUID_RC_OK",
75 "UUID_RC_ARG", "UUID_RC_MEM", "UUID_RC_SYS", "UUID_RC_INT",
76 "UUID_RC_IMP", "UUID_MAKE_V1", "UUID_MAKE_V3", "UUID_MAKE_V4",
77 "UUID_MAKE_V5", "UUID_MAKE_MC", "UUID_FMT_BIN", "UUID_FMT_STR",
78 "UUID_FMT_SIV", "UUID_FMT_TXT".
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81 The following two examples create the version 3 UUID
82 "02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd", both via the OO-style and the
83 C-style API. Error handling is omitted here for easier reading, but has
84 to be added for production-quality code.
85 # TIE-style API (very high-level)
87 use OSSP::uuid;
88 tie my $uuid, 'OSSP::uuid::tie';
89 $uuid = [ "v1" ];
90 print "UUIDs: $uuid, $uuid, $uuid\n";
91 $uuid = [ "v3", "ns:URL", "http://www.ossp.org/" ];
92 print "UUIDs: $uuid, $uuid, $uuid\n";
93 untie $uuid;
94 # OO-style API (high-level)
96 use OSSP::uuid;
97 my $uuid = new OSSP::uuid;
98 my $uuid_ns = new OSSP::uuid;
99 $uuid_ns->load("ns:URL");
100 $uuid->make("v3", $uuid_ns, "http://www.ossp.org/");
101 undef $uuid_ns;
102 my $str = $uuid->export("str");
103 undef $uuid;
104 print "$str\n";
105 # C-style API (low-level)
107 use OSSP::uuid qw(:all);
108 my $uuid; uuid_create($uuid);
109 my $uuid_ns; uuid_create($uuid_ns);
110 uuid_load($uuid_ns, "ns:URL");
111 uuid_make($uuid, UUID_MAKE_V3, $uuid_ns, "http://www.ossp.org/");
112 uuid_destroy($uuid_ns);
113 my $str; uuid_export($uuid, UUID_FMT_STR, $str, undef);
114 uuid_destroy($uuid);
115 print "$str\n";
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118 uuid(1), uuid-config(1), uuid(3).
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121 The Perl binding OSSP::uuid to OSSP uuid was implemented in November
122 2004 by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>.
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