uuid.h revision c58f1213e628a545081c70e26c6b67a841cff880
/** @file
* IPRT - Universal Unique Identifiers (UUID).
*/
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#ifndef ___iprt_uuid_h
#define ___iprt_uuid_h
#include <iprt/cdefs.h>
#include <iprt/types.h>
RT_C_DECLS_BEGIN
/** @defgroup grp_rt_uuid RTUuid - Universally Unique Identifiers
* @ingroup grp_rt
* @{
*/
/**
* Generates new UUID value.
*
* @note IPRT uses little endian byte ordering in the UUID integer fields. If
* you want to pass IPRT UUIDs in binary representation to other UUID libraries
* and expect to get exactly the same string representation as in IPRT, you
* need to convert the first three integer fields (one 32 bit value, two 16 bit
* values) separately to big endian (also called network byte order).
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Where to store generated uuid.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidCreate(PRTUUID pUuid);
/**
* Makes null UUID value.
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Where to store generated null uuid.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidClear(PRTUUID pUuid);
/**
* Checks if UUID is null.
*
* @returns true if UUID is null.
* @param pUuid uuid to check.
*/
RTDECL(bool) RTUuidIsNull(PCRTUUID pUuid);
/**
* Compares two UUID values.
*
* @returns 0 if eq, < 0 or > 0.
* @param pUuid1 First value to compare. NULL is treated like if
* RTUuidIsNull() return true.
* @param pUuid2 Second value to compare. NULL is treated like if
* RTUuidIsNull() return true.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidCompare(PCRTUUID pUuid1, PCRTUUID pUuid2);
/**
* Compares a UUID value with a UUID string.
*
* @note IPRT uses little endian byte ordering in the UUID integer fields. If
* you want to pass IPRT UUIDs in binary representation to other UUID libraries
* and expect to get exactly the same string representation as in IPRT, you need
* to convert the first three integer fields (one 32 bit value, two 16 bit
* values) separately to big endian (also called network byte order).
* Correspondingly, if you want to get the right result with UUIDs which are in
* big endian format, you need to convert them before using this function.
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns 0 if eq, < 0 or > 0.
* @param pUuid1 First value to compare. NULL is not allowed.
* @param pszString2 The 2nd UUID in string form. NULL or malformed
* string is not permitted.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidCompareStr(PCRTUUID pUuid1, const char *pszString2);
/**
* Compares two UUID strings.
*
* @returns 0 if eq, < 0 or > 0.
* @param pszString1 The 1st UUID in string from. NULL or malformed
* string is not permitted.
* @param pszString2 The 2nd UUID in string form. NULL or malformed
* string is not permitted.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidCompare2Strs(const char *pszString1, const char *pszString2);
/**
* Converts binary UUID to its string representation.
*
* @note IPRT uses little endian byte ordering in the UUID integer fields. If
* you want to pass IPRT UUIDs in binary representation to other UUID libraries
* and expect to get exactly the same string representation as in IPRT, you
* need to convert the first three integer fields (one 32 bit value, two 16 bit
* values) separately to big endian (also called network byte order).
* Correspondingly, if you want to get the right result with UUIDs which are in
* big endian format, you need to convert them before using this function.
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Uuid to convert.
* @param pszString Where to store result string.
* @param cchString pszString buffer length, must be >= RTUUID_STR_LENGTH.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidToStr(PCRTUUID pUuid, char *pszString, size_t cchString);
/**
* Converts UUID from its string representation to binary format.
*
* @note IPRT uses little endian byte ordering in the UUID integer fields. If
* you want to pass IPRT UUIDs in binary representation to other UUID libraries
* and expect to get exactly the same string representation as in IPRT, you
* need to convert the first three integer fields (one 32 bit value, two 16 bit
* values) separately to big endian (also called network byte order).
* Correspondingly, if you want to get the right result with UUIDs which are in
* big endian format, you need to convert them before using this function.
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Where to store result Uuid.
* @param pszString String with UUID text data.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidFromStr(PRTUUID pUuid, const char *pszString);
/**
* Converts binary UUID to its UTF-16 string representation.
*
* @note See note in RTUuidToStr.
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Uuid to convert.
* @param pwszString Where to store result string.
* @param cwcString pszString buffer length, must be >=
* RTUUID_STR_LENGTH.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidToUtf16(PCRTUUID pUuid, PRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcString);
/**
* Converts UUID from its UTF-16 string representation to binary format.
*
* @note See note in RTUuidFromStr.
*
* @sa RTUUID::Gen
*
* @returns iprt status code.
* @param pUuid Where to store result Uuid.
* @param pwszString String with UUID text data.
*/
RTDECL(int) RTUuidFromUtf16(PRTUUID pUuid, PCRTUTF16 pwszString);
/** @} */
RT_C_DECLS_END
#endif