webgui/lib/WebGUI/GUID.pm
2011-12-28 11:30:38 -08:00

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package WebGUI::GUID;
=head1 LEGAL
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WebGUI is Copyright 2001-2012 Plain Black Corporation.
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Please read the legal notices (docs/legal.txt) and the license
(docs/license.txt) that came with this distribution before using
this software.
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http://www.plainblack.com info@plainblack.com
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=cut
use strict;
use WebGUI::BestPractices;
use MIME::Base64;
use UUID::Tiny;
my $idValidator = qr/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{22}$/;
=head1 NAME
Package WebGUI::GUID;
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This package generates global unique ids, sometimes called GUIDs. A global unique ID is guaranteed to be unique everywhere and at everytime.
B<NOTE:> There is no such thing as perfectly unique ID's, but the chances of a duplicate ID are so minute that they are effectively unique.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
my $id = WebGUI::GUID->generate;
=head1 METHODS
These methods are available from this class:
=cut
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 fromHex ( hexId )
Returns the guid corresponding to hexId. Converse of toHex.
=head3 hexId
Hex value to convert to guid.
=cut
sub fromHex {
shift;
my $hexId = shift;
my $binId = pack( 'H2' x 16, unpack( 'A2' x 16, $hexId ) );
my $id = substr( encode_base64($binId), 0, 22 );
$id =~ tr{+/}{_-};
return $id;
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 getValidator
Get the regular expression used to validate generated GUIDs. This is just to prevent
regular expressions from being duplicated all over the place.
=cut
sub getValidator {
return $idValidator;
}
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
=head2 generate
This function generates a global unique id.
=cut
sub generate {
shift;
my $id = substr( encode_base64( create_UUID( UUID_V4 ) ), 0, 22 );
$id =~ tr{+/}{_-};
return $id;
}
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=head2 toHex ( guid )
Returns the hex value of a guid. For all GUIDs generated by the generate method, the return value will be 32 characters long. For some manually created invalid GUIDs, it may be 33 characters long.
=head3 guid
guid to convert to hex value.
=cut
sub toHex {
shift;
my $id = shift;
$id =~ tr{_-}{+/};
$id .= 'AA';
my $bin_id = decode_base64($id);
my $hex_id = unpack("H*", $bin_id);
$hex_id =~ s/0{3,4}$//;
return $hex_id;
}
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=head2 valid ( $idString )
Returns true if $idString is a valid WebGUI guid.
=cut
sub valid {
shift;
my $idString = shift;
return $idString =~ m/$idValidator/;
}
1;