{"repo":"uuid-rs/uuid","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid","clone":"git clone https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid.git","description":"Generate and parse UUIDs.","language":"Rust","stars":1233,"topics":["uuid","rust","parse-uuids"],"license":null,"category":"dev-tools","readme_excerpt":"uuid Here's an example of a UUID: A UUID is a unique 128-bit value, stored as 16 octets, and regularly formatted as a hex string in five groups. UUIDs are used to assign unique identifiers to entities without requiring a central allocating authority. They are particularly useful in distributed systems, though can be used in disparate areas, such as databases and network protocols. Typically a UUID is displayed in a readable string form as a sequence of hexadecimal digits, separated into groups by hyphens. The uniqueness property is not strictly guaranteed, however for all practical purposes, it can be assumed that an unintentional collision would be extremely unlikely. Getting started Add the following to your Cargo.toml : When you want a UUID, you can generate one: If you have a UUID value, you can use its string literal form inline: You can also parse UUIDs without needing any crate features: If you'd like to parse UUIDs really fast, check out the uuid-simd library. For more details on using uuid , see the library documentation. References uuid library docs. Wikipedia: Universally Unique Identifier. RFC 9562: Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUID). --- License Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option. Contribution Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/uuid-rs","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/uuid-rs/uuid/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}