zuuid(3)

zuuid(3)

CZMQ Manual - CZMQ/3.0.1

Name

zuuid - UUID support class

Synopsis

//  Constructor
CZMQ_EXPORT zuuid_t *
    zuuid_new (void);

//  Destructor
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zuuid_destroy (zuuid_t **self_p);

//  Return UUID binary data
CZMQ_EXPORT byte *
    zuuid_data (zuuid_t *self);

//  Return UUID binary size
CZMQ_EXPORT size_t
    zuuid_size (zuuid_t *self);

//  Returns UUID as string
CZMQ_EXPORT char *
    zuuid_str (zuuid_t *self);

// Return UUID as formatted string in the canonical format 8-4-4-4-12,
// lower case.  The caller should free the freshly allocated string.
// See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
CZMQ_EXPORT char *
    zuuid_formatted_str (zuuid_t *self);

//  Set UUID to new supplied ZUUID_LEN-octet value
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zuuid_set (zuuid_t *self, byte *source);

//  Set UUID to new supplied ZUUID_STR_LEN-char string value;
//  return 0 if OK, else returns -1.
CZMQ_EXPORT int
    zuuid_set_str (zuuid_t *self, const char *source);

//  Store UUID blob in target array
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zuuid_export (zuuid_t *self, byte *target);

//  Check if UUID is same as supplied value
CZMQ_EXPORT bool
    zuuid_eq (zuuid_t *self, byte *compare);

//  Check if UUID is different from supplied value
CZMQ_EXPORT bool
    zuuid_neq (zuuid_t *self, byte *compare);

//  Make copy of UUID object; if uuid is null, or memory was exhausted,
//  returns null.
CZMQ_EXPORT zuuid_t *
    zuuid_dup (zuuid_t *self);

//  Self test of this class
CZMQ_EXPORT void
    zuuid_test (bool verbose);

Description

The zuuid class generates UUIDs and provides methods for working with them. If you build CZMQ with libuuid, on Unix/Linux, it will use that library. On Windows it will use UuidCreate(). Otherwise it will use a random number generator to produce convincing imitations of uuids.

Example

From zuuid_test method

// Simple create/destroy test
assert (ZUUID_LEN == 16);
assert (ZUUID_STR_LEN == 32);

zuuid_t *uuid = zuuid_new ();
assert (uuid);
assert (zuuid_size (uuid) == ZUUID_LEN);
assert (strlen (zuuid_str (uuid)) == ZUUID_STR_LEN);
zuuid_t *copy = zuuid_dup (uuid);
assert (streq (zuuid_str (uuid), zuuid_str (copy)));

// Check set/set_str/export methods
const char *myuuid = "8CB3E9A9649B4BEF8DE225E9C2CEBB38";
zuuid_set_str (uuid, myuuid);
assert (streq (zuuid_str (uuid), myuuid));
byte copy_uuid [ZUUID_LEN];
zuuid_export (uuid, copy_uuid);
zuuid_set (uuid, copy_uuid);
assert (streq (zuuid_str (uuid), myuuid));

// Check the formatted string output
char *formatted_str = zuuid_formatted_str (uuid);
assert (streq (formatted_str, "8cb3e9a9-649b-4bef-8de2-25e9c2cebb38"));
zstr_free (&formatted_str);

zuuid_destroy (&uuid); zuuid_destroy (&copy);

See also

czmq(7)

Authors

The CZMQ manual was written by Pieter Hintjens<moc.xitami|hp#moc.xitami|hp>.

Resources

Main web site: http://czmq.zeromq.org/

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Copyright

Copyright (c) the Contributors as noted in the AUTHORS file. This file is part of CZMQ, the high-level C binding for ØMQ: http://czmq.zeromq.org. This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.