uuid

an alternative to the github.com/google/uuid package

Installation

go get -u github.com/malivvan/uuid

Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/malivvan/uuid"
)

func main() {
    // Generate a new UUID
    id, err := uuid.New("TYPE", 8)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    fmt.Println(id)
}

Features

• Type Prefix
• Host Fingerprinting
• Unix Timestamp
• Data bytes with dynamic length
• CRC Checksum

Structure

| TYPE-SYSTEMID-UNIXSECOND-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-CHECKSUM |
|  4  |    4   |    4     |        N       |    4    | = N + 16 bytes

> TEST-C05FA96E-1720977041-F0ADF56596E2C4FB-188A8A03

Credits

• Special thanks to Denis Brodbeck for his machineID implementation