From 251c4f54dc608d217573e3e776bb985a14684603 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Meade <alex.meade@rackspace.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:53:02 -0500
Subject: 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
---
 openstack/common/uuidutils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'openstack/common')

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.
 
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