Source code for heat.common.short_id

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"""Utilities for creating short ID strings based on a random UUID.

The IDs each comprise 12 (lower-case) alphanumeric characters.
"""

import base64
import uuid

from heat.common.i18n import _


def _to_byte_string(value, num_bits):
    """Convert an integer to a big-endian string of bytes with padding.

    Padding is added at the end (i.e. after the least-significant bit) if
    required.
    """
    shifts = range(num_bits - 8, -8, -8)

    def byte_at(off):
        return (value >> off if off >= 0 else value << -off) & 0xff

    return b''.join(bytes((byte_at(offset),)) for offset in shifts)


[docs]def get_id(source_uuid):
    """Derive a short (12 character) id from a random UUID.

    The supplied UUID must be a version 4 UUID object.
    """
    if isinstance(source_uuid, str):
        source_uuid = uuid.UUID(source_uuid)
    if source_uuid.version != 4:
        raise ValueError(_('Invalid UUID version (%d)') % source_uuid.version)

    # The "time" field of a v4 UUID contains 60 random bits
    # (see RFC4122, Section 4.4)
    random_bytes = _to_byte_string(source_uuid.time, 60)
    # The first 12 bytes (= 60 bits) of base32-encoded output is our data

    encoded_bytes = base64.b32encode(random_bytes)[:12]
    return encoded_bytes.decode('ascii').lower()


[docs]def generate_id():
    """Generate a short (12 character), random id."""
    return get_id(uuid.uuid4())