#AdaID#

AdaID is a simple Ada library for generating UUIDs. Supported operations include:

• Generating random UUIDs
• Generating name-based UUIDs
• Restoring UUIDs from a string representation (Not yet implemented).
• Converting a UUID to a string

Included is Jonh Halleck's NIST-validated implementation of SHA1 (distrubted under the GNU GPLv3).

To use the library, ensure that the latest version of GNAT is installed. Then run make, followed by an optional make test. Then, use the src/adaid.ads file and link your project with libadaid.a.

Here's an example usage:

with AdaID; use AdaID;
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Print_Random_UUID is
	id : UUID;
begin
	Random(id);
	Put_Line(To_String(id));
end Print_Random_UUID;

Future improvements include:

• Moving the test program to a proper unit test framework
• Including an install option in the build process
• General make file improvements