Support GUIDs in id generator templates

[svdHero]

Hi there,

in the options file, one can set templates for how ids are generated:

  "TemplateIdAas": "https://example.com/ids/aas/DDDD_DDDD_DDDD_DDDD",
  "TemplateIdAsset": "https://example.com/ids/asset/DDDD_DDDD_DDDD_DDDD",
  "TemplateIdSubmodelInstance": "https://example.com/ids/sm/DDDD_DDDD_DDDD_DDDD",
  "TemplateIdSubmodelTemplate": "https://example.com/ids/sm/DDDD_DDDD_DDDD_DDDD",
  "TemplateIdConceptDescription": "https://example.com/ids/cd/DDDD_DDDD_DDDD_DDDD",

In the enterprise software world, especially in a .NET context, it is best practice to use UUIDs or, in particular, Microsoft's GUIDs for ids.

Hence, it would be great, if you could extend the method Options.GenerateIdAccordingTemplate so that templates such as

  "TemplateIdAas": "https://example.com/ids/aas/G",

are accepted and generate an id like

https://example.com/ids/aas/3ff9a07e1b0f452e803aecb4a210ab86

using the function call Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N").

[BirgitBoss]

The specification of the Asset Administration Shell does not allow GUID or UUIDs. This is the reason this is not (and should not be) supported. For AAS and submodels it is typcial to use URLs.

We can discuss with the specification team whether to extend the enumeration of allowed idTypes with GUIDs or UUIDs in general.

[svdHero]

What I meant was generating a Guid as part of an url. Please see my original post.

[BirgitBoss]

You are right, sorry for the confusion