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authorAlex Meade <alex.meade@rackspace.com>2012-11-09 10:53:02 -0500
committerAlex Meade <alex.meade@rackspace.com>2012-11-09 12:40:13 -0500
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Add generate_uuid to uuidutils.
Currently many projects have their own nearly identical methods for generating uuids. This patch will change that. Change-Id: I0af348ddbdea658331e8e701dcf1f8a12d968479
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-rw-r--r--openstack/common/uuidutils.py4
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diff --git a/openstack/common/uuidutils.py b/openstack/common/uuidutils.py
index 51042a7..7608acb 100644
--- a/openstack/common/uuidutils.py
+++ b/openstack/common/uuidutils.py
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ UUID related utilities and helper functions.
import uuid
+def generate_uuid():
+ return str(uuid.uuid4())
+
+
def is_uuid_like(val):
"""Returns validation of a value as a UUID.