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public function Com::generate in Service Container 7

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 7.2 lib/Drupal/Component/Uuid/Com.php \Drupal\Component\Uuid\Com::generate()

Generates a Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID).

Return value

A 16 byte integer represented as a hex string formatted with 4 hyphens.

Overrides UuidInterface::generate

File

lib/Drupal/Component/Uuid/Com.php, line 19
Contains \Drupal\Component\Uuid\Com.

Class

Com
UUID implementation using the Windows internal GUID extension.

Namespace

Drupal\Component\Uuid

Code

public function generate() {

  // Remove {} wrapper and make lower case to keep result consistent.
  return strtolower(trim(com_create_guid(), '{}'));
}