Uuid field

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

This field stores a universally unique identifier. This might be a hash (e.g. MD5 or SHA1).

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Text field
    • Id field
      • Uuid field

Additional Properties

As for Id fields except for

name	default	description
maxlength	45	Different default.
text_index	0	Different default.

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Id fields.

Database

Uuid fields are stored in the database as

fieldname VARCHAR(255)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'uuid',
    type => 'uuid',
},