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uuid-lib

OSF DCE 1.1 UUID

Documentation

Wrapper for uuid/uuid.h procedures on MacOS X, and Linux.

Predicates

uuid?

uuid? UUIDprocedure

Is UUID a uuid?

uuid-null?

uuid-null? UUIDprocedure

Is UUID the null uuid?

uuid-compare

uuid-compare UUID1 UUID2procedure

Returns -1, 0. or 1 for the comaprison of UUID1 and UUID2.

uuid=?

uuid=? UUID1 UUID2procedure

Are UUID1 and UUID2 equal?

uuid<?

uuid<? UUID1 UUID2procedure

Does UUID1 order below UUID2?

uuid>?

uuid>? UUID1 UUID2procedure

Does UUID1 order above UUID2?

uuid<=?

uuid<=? UUID1 UUID2procedure

Does UUID1 order below or the same as UUID2?

uuid>=?

uuid>=? UUID1 UUID2procedure

Does UUID1 order above or the same as UUID2?

Operations

uuid-clear!

uuid-clear! UUIDprocedure

Returns the UUID set to the null-uuid.

uuid-copy

uuid-copy UUIDprocedure

Returns a copy of the UUID.

make-uuid

make-uuid #!optional VARIANTprocedure

Returns a new uuid.

VARIANT is:

'V1 or 'time
DCE Version 1 (MAC address) algorithm.
'V4 or 'random
DCE Version 4 (random) algorithm.
#f
The null-uuid. The default.

An invalid MODE is an error condtion.

string->uuid

string->uuid UUID-STRINGprocedure

Returns a new uuid from the external string representation UUID-STRING.

uuid->string

uuid->string UUIDprocedure

Returns the external string representation of UUID.

uuid-generate

uuid-generate #!optional METHODprocedure

Returns a new uuid.

METHOD is:

'random
DCE Version 4 (random) algorithm.
'time
DCE Version 1 (MAC address) algorithm.
#f
DCE V4 if a high-quality random device available, otherwise DCE V1. The default.

An invalid METHOD is an error condtion.

uuid-parse

uuid-parse UUID-TEXTprocedure

Returns a new uuid from the external string representation UUID-TEXT.

uuid-unparse

uuid-unparse UUID #!optional CASEprocedure

Returns the external string representation of UUID.

CASE is #f (the system dependent local default), 'upper, or 'lower. Default is #f.

An invalid CASE is an error condtion.

Usage

(require-extension uuid-lib)

Notes

Author

Kon Lovett

Version history

1.5.0 ; Add types.
1.4.1
Explicit libuuid for linux.
1.4.0
Added make-uuid, string->uuid, uuid->string. Dropped use of "uuid-lib-c-api.scm" since undocumented. Deprecated uuid<>?.
1.3.0
Exposed uuid-compare.
1.2
Hello.

License

Copyright (C) 2010 Kon Lovett. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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