Difference between revisions of "Uuid field"
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| − | This field stores a universally unique identifier. This | + | This field stores a universally unique identifier. This might be a hash (e.g. MD5 or SHA1). |
== Inheritance == | == Inheritance == | ||
Revision as of 08:11, 11 April 2023
EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects
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 - Recaptcha3 - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid
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Description
This field stores a universally unique identifier. This might be a hash (e.g. MD5 or SHA1).
Inheritance
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',
},
