UUID package for Go language

This package provides pure Go implementation of Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). Supported both creation and parsing of UUIDs.

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 Go >= 1.2.

Example

package main

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

func main() {
	// Creating UUID Version 4
	// panic on error
	u1 := uuid.Must(uuid.NewV4())
	fmt.Printf("UUIDv4: %s\n", u1)

	// or error handling
	u2, err := uuid.NewV4()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Something went wrong: %s", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Printf("UUIDv4: %s\n", u2)

	// Parsing UUID from string input
	u2, err := uuid.FromString("6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("Something went wrong: %s", err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Successfully parsed: %s", u2)
}

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at GoDoc project.

Copyright

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