The QUuid class defines a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).
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For objects or declarations that must be uniquely identified, UUIDs (also known as GUIDs) are widely used in order to assign a fixed and easy to compare value to the object or declaration. The 128-bit value of a UUID is generated by an algorithm that guarantees that the value is unique.
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In Qt, UUIDs are wrapped by the QUuid struct which provides convenience functions for handling UUIDs. Most platforms provide a tool to generate new UUIDs, for example, uuidgen and guidgen.
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UUIDs generated by QUuid, are based on the Random version of the DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) standard.
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UUIDs can be constructed from numeric values or from strings, or using the static createUuid() function. They can be converted to a string with toString(). UUIDs have a variant() and a version(), and null UUIDs return TRUE from isNull().
.SS "Member Type Documentation"
.SH "QUuid::Variant"
This enum defines the variant of the UUID, which is the scheme which defines the layout of the 128-bits value.
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\fCQUuid::VarUnknown\fR - Variant is unknown
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\fCQUuid::NCS\fR - Reserved for NCS (Network Computing System) backward compatibility
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\fCQUuid::DCE\fR - Distributed Computing Environment, the scheme used by QUuid
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\fCQUuid::Microsoft\fR - Reserved for Microsoft backward compatibility (GUID)
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\fCQUuid::Reserved\fR - Reserved for future definition
.SH "QUuid::Version"
This enum defines the version of the UUID.
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\fCQUuid::VerUnknown\fR - Version is unknown
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\fCQUuid::Time\fR - Time-based, by using timestamp, clock sequence, and MAC network card address (if available) for the node sections
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\fCQUuid::EmbeddedPOSIX\fR - DCE Security version, with embedded POSIX UUIDs
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\fCQUuid::Name\fR - Name-based, by using values from a name for all sections
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\fCQUuid::Random\fR - Random-based, by using random numbers for all sections
.SH MEMBER FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION
.SH "QUuid::QUuid ()"
Creates the null UUID {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.
Creates a UUID with the value specified by the parameters, \fIl\fR, \fIw1\fR, \fIw2\fR, \fIb1\fR, \fIb2\fR, \fIb3\fR, \fIb4\fR, \fIb5\fR, \fIb6\fR, \fIb7\fR, \fIb8\fR.
Creates a QUuid object from the string \fItext\fR. The function can only convert a string in the format {HHHHHHHH-HHHH-HHHH-HHHH-HHHHHHHHHHHH} (where 'H' stands for a hex digit). If the conversion fails a null UUID is created.
.SH "QUuid QUuid::createUuid ()\fC [static]\fR"
Returns a new UUID of DCE variant, and Random type. The UUIDs generated are based on the platform specific pseudo-random generator, which is usually not a cryptographic-quality random number generator. Therefore, a UUID is not guaranteed to be unique cross application instances.
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On Windows, the new UUID is extremely likely to be unique on the same or any other system, networked or not.
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See also variant() and version().
.SH "bool QUuid::isNull () const"
Returns TRUE if this is the null UUID {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}; otherwise returns FALSE.
.SH "QUuid::operator QString () const"
Returns the string representation of the uuid.
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See also toString().
.SH "bool QUuid::operator!= ( const QUuid & other ) const"
Returns TRUE if this QUuid and the \fIother\fR QUuid are different; otherwise returns FALSE.
.SH "bool QUuid::operator< ( const QUuid & other ) const"
Returns TRUE if this QUuid is of the same variant, and lexicographically before the \fIother\fR QUuid; otherwise returns FALSE.
