Crate uuid [] [src]

Generate and parse UUIDs

Provides support for Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs). A UUID is a unique 128-bit number, stored as 16 octets. UUIDs are used to assign unique identifiers to entities without requiring a central allocating authority.

They are particularly useful in distributed systems, though can be used in disparate areas, such as databases and network protocols. Typically a UUID is displayed in a readable string form as a sequence of hexadecimal digits, separated into groups by hyphens.

The uniqueness property is not strictly guaranteed, however for all practical purposes, it can be assumed that an unintentional collision would be extremely unlikely.

Dependencies

This crate by default has no dependencies and is #![no_std] compatible. The following Cargo features, however, can be used to enable various pieces of functionality.

  • use_std - adds in functionality available when linking to the standard library, currently this is only the impl Error for ParseError.
  • v4 - adds the Uuid::new_v4 function and the ability to randomly generate a Uuid.
  • rustc-serialize - adds the ability to serialize and deserialize a Uuid using the rustc-serialize crate.
  • serde - adds the ability to serialize and deserialize a Uuid using the serde crate.

By default, uuid can be depended on with:

[dependencies]
uuid = "0.2"

To activate various features, use syntax like:

[dependencies]
uuid = { version = "0.2", features = ["serde", "v4"] }

Examples

To parse parse a UUID in the simple format and print it as a urn:

use uuid::Uuid;

fn main() {
    let my_uuid = Uuid::parse_str("936DA01F9ABD4d9d80C702AF85C822A8").unwrap();
    println!("{}", my_uuid.urn());
}

To create a new random (V4) UUID and print it out in hexadecimal form:

// Note that this requires the `rand` feature enabled in the uuid crate.

use uuid::Uuid;

fn main() {
    let my_uuid = Uuid::new_v4();
    println!("{}", my_uuid);
}

Strings

Examples of string representations:

  • simple: 936DA01F9ABD4d9d80C702AF85C822A8
  • hyphenated: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
  • urn: urn:uuid:F9168C5E-CEB2-4faa-B6BF-329BF39FA1E4

References

Structs

Hyphenated

Adaptor for formatting a Uuid as a hyphenated string.

Simple

Adaptor for formatting a Uuid as a simple string.

Urn

Adaptor for formatting a Uuid as a URN string.

Uuid

A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

Enums

ParseError

Error details for string parsing failures

UuidVariant

The reserved variants of UUIDs

UuidVersion

The version of the UUID, denoting the generating algorithm

Type Definitions

UuidBytes

A 128-bit (16 byte) buffer containing the ID