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UUID package for Go language

This package provides implementation of Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).

With 100% test coverage and benchmarks out of box.

Supported versions:

Version 1, based on timestamp and MAC address (RFC 4122)
Version 2, based on timestamp, MAC address and POSIX UID/GID (DCE 1.1)
Version 3, based on MD5 hashing (RFC 4122)
Version 4, based on random numbers (RFC 4122)
Version 5, based on SHA-1 hashing (RFC 4122)

Installation

Use the go command:

$ go get github.com/satori/go.uuid

Requirements

UUID package requires any stable version of Go Programming Language.

It is tested against following versions of Go: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2

Example

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/satori/go.uuid"
)

func main() {
  // Creating UUID Version 4
  u := uuid.NewV4()
  fmt.Printf("UUIDv4: %s\n", u)
}

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at GoDoc project.

Copyright

UUID package released under MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

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