# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more # contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with # this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. # The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 # (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with # the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. """ UUID generation utilities. """ from __future__ import absolute_import # so we can import standard 'uuid' from random import randrange from uuid import uuid4 from shortuuid import ShortUUID # Alphanumeric without visually ambiguous characters; default length is 22 UUID_BASE57 = ShortUUID() # Lower-case alphanumeric; default length is 25 UUID_LOWERCASE_ALPHANUMERIC = ShortUUID(alphabet='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789') def generate_uuid(length=None, variant='base57'): """ A random string with varying degrees of guarantee of universal uniqueness. :param variant: * ``base57`` (the default) uses a mix of upper and lowercase alphanumerics ensuring no visually ambiguous characters; default length 22 * ``alphanumeric`` uses lowercase alphanumeric; default length 25 * ``uuid`` uses lowercase hexadecimal in the classic UUID format, including dashes; length is always 36 * ``hex`` uses lowercase hexadecimal characters but has no guarantee of uniqueness; default length of 5 """ if variant == 'base57': the_id = UUID_BASE57.uuid() if length is not None: the_id = the_id[:length] elif variant == 'alphanumeric': the_id = UUID_LOWERCASE_ALPHANUMERIC.uuid() if length is not None: the_id = the_id[:length] elif variant == 'uuid': the_id = str(uuid4()) elif variant == 'hex': length = length or 5 # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2782859 the_id = ('%0' + str(length) + 'x') % randrange(16 ** length) else: raise ValueError('unsupported UUID variant: {0}'.format(variant)) return the_id