pjproject/pjlib/include/pj/guid.h

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/* $header: $ */
#ifndef __PJ_GUID_H__
#define __PJ_GUID_H__
/**
* @file guid.h
* @brief GUID Globally Unique Identifier.
*/
#include <pj/types.h>
PJ_BEGIN_DECL
/**
* @defgroup PJ_DS Data Structure.
* @ingroup PJ
*/
/**
* @defgroup PJ_GUID Globally Unique Identifier
* @ingroup PJ_DS
* @{
*
* This module provides API to create string that is globally unique.
* If application doesn't require that strong requirement, it can just
* use #pj_create_random_string() instead.
*/
/**
* PJ_GUID_STRING_LENGTH specifies length of GUID string. The value is
* dependent on the algorithm used internally to generate the GUID string.
* If real GUID generator is used, then the length will be 128bit or
* 32 bytes. If shadow GUID generator is used, then the length
* will be 20 bytes. Application should not assume which algorithm will
* be used by GUID generator.
*/
extern const unsigned PJ_GUID_STRING_LENGTH;
/**
* PJ_GUID_MAX_LENGTH specifies the maximum length of GUID string,
* regardless of which algorithm to use.
*/
#define PJ_GUID_MAX_LENGTH 32
/**
* Create a globally unique string, which length is PJ_GUID_STRING_LENGTH
* characters. Caller is responsible for preallocating the storage used
* in the string.
*
* @param str The string to store the result.
*
* @return The string.
*/
PJ_DECL(pj_str_t*) pj_generate_unique_string(pj_str_t *str);
/**
* Generate a unique string.
*
* @param pool Pool to allocate memory from.
* @param str The string.
*/
PJ_DECL(void) pj_create_unique_string(pj_pool_t *pool, pj_str_t *str);
/**
* @}
*/
PJ_END_DECL
#endif/* __PJ_GUID_H__ */