poco/Foundation/include/Poco/UUIDGenerator.h

//
// UUIDGenerator.h
//
// $Id: //poco/1.4/Foundation/include/Poco/UUIDGenerator.h#1 $
//
// Library: Foundation
// Package: UUID
// Module:  UUID
//
// Definition of the UUIDGenerator class.
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#ifndef Foundation_UUIDGenerator_INCLUDED
#define Foundation_UUIDGenerator_INCLUDED


#include "Poco/Foundation.h"
#include "Poco/UUID.h"
#include "Poco/Mutex.h"
#include "Poco/Random.h"
#include "Poco/Timestamp.h"
#include "Poco/Environment.h"


namespace Poco {


class DigestEngine;


class Foundation_API UUIDGenerator
	/// This class implements a generator for Universal Unique Identifiers,
	/// as specified in Appendix A of the DCE 1.1 Remote Procedure
	/// Call Specification (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/),
	/// RFC 2518 (WebDAV), section 6.4.1 and the UUIDs and GUIDs internet
	/// draft by Leach/Salz from February, 1998 
	/// (http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/uuid-guid/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt)
{
public:
	UUIDGenerator();
		/// Creates the UUIDGenerator.

	~UUIDGenerator();
		/// Destroys the UUIDGenerator.

	UUID create();
		/// Creates a new time-based UUID, using the MAC address of
		/// one of the system's ethernet adapters.
		///
		/// Throws a SystemException if no MAC address can be
		/// obtained.
	
	UUID createFromName(const UUID& nsid, const std::string& name);
		/// Creates a name-based UUID.

	UUID createFromName(const UUID& nsid, const std::string& name, DigestEngine& de);
		/// Creates a name-based UUID, using the given digest engine.
		
	UUID createRandom();
		/// Creates a random UUID.
		
	UUID createOne();
		/// Tries to create and return a time-based UUID (see create()), and, 
		/// if that does not work due to the unavailability of a MAC address,
		/// creates and returns a random UUID (see createRandom()).
		///
		/// The UUID::version() method can be used to determine the actual kind of
		/// the UUID generated.

	static UUIDGenerator& defaultGenerator();
		/// Returns a reference to the default UUIDGenerator.
		
protected:
	Timestamp::UtcTimeVal timeStamp();
	void getNode();

private:
	FastMutex           _mutex;
	Random              _random;
	Timestamp           _lastTime;
	int                 _ticks;
	Environment::NodeId _node;
	bool                _haveNode;
	
	UUIDGenerator(const UUIDGenerator&);
	UUIDGenerator& operator = (const UUIDGenerator&);
};


} // namespace Poco


#endif // Foundation_UUIDGenerator_INCLUDED