UUID format 8-4-4-16

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Dan Chadwick, Driving Evals

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Mar 5, 2020, 10:19:14 AM3/5/20

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I noticed that all MSR uuids are in 8-4-4-16 format, rather than 8-4-4-4-12 format. This appears to be non-standard. I can't find any history on 8-4-4-16 format.

Real question: Is this going to change and if so, will we have warning?

Idle curiosity: Why.

BTW, I tried stripping the dashes and the REST endpoints reject the id's.

Brian Ghidinelli

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Mar 5, 2020, 8:43:43 PM3/5/20

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Dan - it's the format chosen by our earlier tech stack (Adobe/Java). Behind the scenes, we store an increasing number of these as native Postgres UUID fields which use the standard 36-character format. If this were to change in the API, we would likely support both formats but we don't have any short term plans to change it.