package uuid import ( "crypto/rand" "encoding/hex" "fmt" ) // GenerateRandomBytes is used to generate random bytes of given size. func GenerateRandomBytes(size int) ([]byte, error) { buf := make([]byte, size) if _, err := rand.Read(buf); err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read random bytes: %v", err) } return buf, nil } // GenerateUUID is used to generate a random UUID func GenerateUUID() (string, error) { buf, err := GenerateRandomBytes(16) if err != nil { return "", err } return FormatUUID(buf) } func FormatUUID(buf []byte) (string, error) { if len(buf) != 16 { return "", fmt.Errorf("wrong length byte slice (%d)", len(buf)) } return fmt.Sprintf("%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%12x", buf[0:4], buf[4:6], buf[6:8], buf[8:10], buf[10:16]), nil } func ParseUUID(uuid string) ([]byte, error) { if len(uuid) != 36 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("uuid string is wrong length") } hyph := []byte("-") if uuid[8] != hyph[0] || uuid[13] != hyph[0] || uuid[18] != hyph[0] || uuid[23] != hyph[0] { return nil, fmt.Errorf("uuid is improperly formatted") } hexStr := uuid[0:8] + uuid[9:13] + uuid[14:18] + uuid[19:23] + uuid[24:36] ret, err := hex.DecodeString(hexStr) if err != nil { return nil, err } if len(ret) != 16 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("decoded hex is the wrong length") } return ret, nil }