uuid-tools

uuid-tools is a vs-code extension that can generate v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7 UUIDs and includes various useful uuid manipulation commands.

Installation

Open VS Code and press F1 or Ctrl + Shift + P or Cmd + Shift + P to open command palette, select Install Extension and type uuid-tools.

Or launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl + P or Cmd + P ), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install uuid-tools

You can also install directly from the Marketplace within Visual Studio Code, searching for uuid-tools.

Commands

This extension provides several commands in the Command Palette (F1 or Ctrl + Shift + P or Cmd + Shift + P) for working with any files.

• uuid-tools: Generate nil UUID: Generates uuid string with all zeros.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv1: Generates version 1 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv2: Generates version 2 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv3: Generates version 3 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv4: Generates version 4 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv5: Generates version 5 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv6: Generates version 6 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUIDv7: Generates version 7 uuid.
• uuid-tools: Generate UUID: Generates uuid specified in the preferences.
• uuid-tools: Convert to hexadecimal: Replaces selected uuid string with the equivalent hexadecimal representation.
• uuid-tools: Convert to bytes: Replaces selected uuid string with the comma-seperated hexadecimal bytes.
• uuid-tools: Construct UUID from string: Constructing UUIDs from selected text that contains hex values.

Note: Selected uuid strings can contain space, double-quote and single-quote.

Menus

• uuid-tools: Generate UUID: Generates uuid specified in the preferences.

Usage

UUID Generation

There are 3 different ways to generate UUID

• Set cursor and run the UUID generation command, this will generate at the cursor.
• Set multi cursors and run the UUID generation command, this will generate UUIDs at each cursor.

  Note: For the multiple UUID generation, UUID generation behavior can be controlled through uuid-tools.multi-cursor-behavior option.

• Select any text that includes any number of UUIDs and run the UUID generation command, this will replace existing UUIDs with the new ones.

Options

Option	Description	Default
uuid-tools.uuid-version	Version of the UUID to generate	v4
uuid-tools.case	Case of the generated UUID string	lower
uuid-tools.multi-cursor-behavior	UUID generation behavior when multi-cursor is active	unique
uuid-tools.v2.domain	Domain of the UUID v2	null
uuid-tools.v2.identifier	Identifier of the UUID v2	null
uuid-tools.v3.namespace	Namespace of the UUID v3	null
uuid-tools.v3.name	Name of the UUID v3	null
uuid-tools.v5.namespace	Namespace of the UUID v5	null
uuid-tools.v5.name	Name of the UUID v5	null

Release Notes

Version 2.3.0

• Default case sensitivity changed to "lower" case.

Development

Maintainer Kadir Sevil <kadir.sevil@diodeiot.com>

Publisher Diode IoT Inc. <info@diodeiot.com>

Contribution

Contributions to the repository are welcome.

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