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nsIUUIDGenerator

IID:138ad1b2-c694-41cc-b201-333ce936d8b8
Inherits From:nsISupports

nsIUUIDGenerator is implemented by a service that can generate universally unique identifiers, ideally using any platform-native method for generating UUIDs.

Methods

nsIDPtr generateUUID ( ) [noscript] void generateUUIDInPlace ( nsNonConstIDPtr* id )

nsIDPtr generateUUID ( )

Obtains a new UUID using appropriate platform-specific methods to obtain a nsID that can be considered to be globally unique.

void generateUUIDInPlace ( nsNonConstIDPtr* id )

Obtain a new UUID like the generateUUID method, but place it in the provided nsID pointer instead of allocating a new nsID.

Arguments:
id: an existing nsID pointer where the UUID will be stored.

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