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Add generate_uuid to uuidutils. 

Currently many projects have their own nearly identical methods for generating
uuids. This patch will change that.

Change-Id: I0af348ddbdea658331e8e701dcf1f8a12d968479
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Alex Meade 2012-11-09 10:53:02 -05:00
parent ac4515559f
commit 251c4f54dc
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openstack/common/uuidutils.py
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@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ UUID related utilities and helper functions.
import uuid
def generate_uuid():
return str(uuid.uuid4())
def is_uuid_like(val):
"""Returns validation of a value as a UUID.

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tests/unit/test_uuidutils.py
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@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ from openstack.common import uuidutils
class UUIDUtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_generate_uuid(self):
uuid_string = uuidutils.generate_uuid()
self.assertTrue(isinstance(uuid_string, str))
self.assertEqual(len(uuid_string), 36)
# make sure there are 4 dashes
self.assertEqual(len(uuid_string.replace('-', '')), 32)
def test_is_uuid_like(self):
self.assertTrue(uuidutils.is_uuid_like(str(uuid.uuid4())))