Hey, i would suggest adding support for the widely used RFC4122 Version 4 UUID, which is generated completely random. In lua a script for generating these is about 5 lines long, but because of several reasons I don't want to use lua in this use-case.
I would definitely not add add additional dependencies. The only thing required to generate such a UUID is a random number generator (which is already available) and some string-concatenation. Example code comes out with a quick GitHub search: https://gist.github.com/kvelakur/9069c9896577c3040030 . I think adding this feature would not require too much effort. @Willy, whats your opinion on this? Best regards Luca On 05.09.19, 17:32, "[email protected] on behalf of Lukas Tribus" <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 4:58 PM Schimweg, Luca <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey again, > > I tried to use rand, but when using it, my generation code for a UUID looks like this: > > unique-id-format %[rand,hex,bytes(8,8),lower]-%[rand(65536),hex,bytes(12,4),lower]-4%[rand(4096),hex,bytes(13,3),lower]-%[rand(16384),add(32768),hex,bytes(12,4),lower]-%[rand(65536),hex,bytes(12,4),lower]%[rand,hex,bytes(8,8),lower] > > To be honest I think for a simple UUID, we should not be required to but such a complicated and long line into the config. Also, I think that the performance impact of such a line is much bigger than the generation of a UUID in plain C code. We could just create a ACL generator called uuid or something similar which would do the job. The config would get much clearer. > > Any opinions to this? I would be willing to implement such a feature if the maintainers would be ready to merge it in general. Are you proposing to implement a RFC4122 compliant UUID? Which UUID version? Which dependencies would it require? I guess something RFC4122 compliant based on openssl for example would work. Adding chunks of fragile code nobody is gonna maintain or adding additional dependencies like libuuid - probably not. I suggest we wait for Willy's feedback, but I want to stress that this may not be as simple as 5 lines of standalone C code ... we certainly don't want to act like we are generating standard compliant RFC4122 UUIDs when that is not really the case. Lukas
