Not JSON-compatible

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a new UUID
2. Marshal said UUID
3. Unmarshal the result of 2 into a new UUID

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Both UUIDs should be equal. Instead, step 3 throws an Unmarshal error. 
Marshaling occurs as is typical for byte slices--it is encoded as a string--but 
Unmarshaling cannot unmarshal a string to type UUID.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

This was confirmed in Go 1.2rc3 on the Go playground: 
http://play.golang.org/p/BUo5pw9BAO. It is running against the latest master of 
go-uuid, 7dda39b2e7d5.

Please provide any additional information below.

This should be simple enough to fix: extend the UUID type to implement 
Marshaler and Unmarshaler. I would expect them to call json.Marshal on 
id.String() (where id is a UUID), and json.Unmarshal, followed by Parse() on 
the result.

If this were on Github or something similar, I'd submit a pull request. 
Unfortunately, I'm unsure as to how to do that on Google Code. Instead, I've 
implemented a variation on the Go Playground: 
http://play.golang.org/p/OXjK4Jdd7w

This could be implemented by aliasing the UUID type locally an extending it, 
but that seems like a silly wrapper to maintain, rather than adding two 
functions to go-uuid.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pa...@dramafever.com on 17 Apr 2014 at 5:09

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I have also ran into this issue.  In my own code I created a wrapper around the 
uuid and had it implement Marshaler and Unmarshaler.  It would be really nice 
to see these implemented for uuid.

Original comment by ryan.mo...@greyrocksoft.com on 20 May 2014 at 3:57

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Thank you, I am starting work on this now.   Apparently I was not seeing mail 
that indicated there were issues with go-uuid.

Original comment by bor...@google.com on 1 Dec 2014 at 5:23

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Original comment by bor...@google.com on 1 Dec 2014 at 6:07

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