com.sas.edir.util
Class GUIDUtil

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.sas.edir.util.GUIDUtil

public class GUIDUtil

extends java.lang.Object

GUID creation

Version:

1.0

Author:

SAS

Constructor Summary

GUIDUtil()
Null constructor

Method Summary

static java.lang.String

getGuid(EnterpriseDirectory privEdir, Entity content) Creates a GUID value and stores it in a metadata store as a sasGuid attribute if one does not already exist.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GUIDUtil

public GUIDUtil()

Null constructor

Method Detail

getGuid

public static java.lang.String getGuid(EnterpriseDirectory privEdir,
                                       Entity content)
                                throws java.lang.Exception

Creates a GUID value and stores it in a metadata store as a sasGuid attribute if one does not already exist.

Parameters:

privEdir - An EnterpriseDirectory that has permission to write to , the metadata store for the content

content - An Entity that represents the content to be referred to by using a GUID

Returns:

A String representing the globally unique ID for a piece of content

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - on error