Allow for a different PRNG

[marijn]

First of, great job! This seems to be one of the most solid UUID implementations for PHP.

I was wondering if you would mind having a dedicated UuidGenerator class which would house all the factories for generating the different Uuid implementations. In particular, this would allow us to inject a different PRNG.

Are you open to such a change?

[ramsey]

That sounds good to me. Are you thinking of moving the static methods in Uuid out to a UuidGenerator class and allowing for a new PRNG to be statically set on the UuidGenerator (or something like that)?

[marijn]

Not statically. It would just be an instance property. I'll post some pseudo code later today.

[ramsey]

@marijn, I'm just curious where this stands and whether you're still thinking of implementing this.

[marijn]

I'm definitely still thinking of implementing this. However, I do have a lot on my plate at the moment so it's definitely not going to be anytime soon.

[RSully]

Any more thought put into this?

[marijn]

I wish I had more 🕐

[ramsey]

I'm wondering if this could be related to some of the discussion on #34 and as a better implementation to support GUIDs and other UUIDs.

@marijn, if you could sketch out some of your ideas for the interface for the UuidGenerator, I could help get started on the internals for this. I'm targeting the 3.0 branch for this.

[ramsey]

This work has been merged into the 3.0 branch.