Expose bytes to uuid

[wesleytodd]

Do you have any interest in exposing the lib method bytesToUuid?

Usecase: I am writing two uuid's to a buffer which I am hex encoding for use in a http header, but when I decode them, I would like to store are traditional string representation in the XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX format.

It would be nice to do something like:

var buf = Buffer.from(hexEncodedString, 'hex');
var id1 = uuid.bytesToUuid(buf.slice(0, 16));
var id2 = uuid.bytesToUuid(buf.slice(17, 32));

Maybe there is another way to do this that I don't know about, so let me know if that is the case. Otherwise I can submit a PR to expose it.

[broofa]

No, this isn't something I expect will ever be part of the public API.

That said, require('uuid/lib/bytesToUuid') works. Just keep in mind that changes that break that will not be considered "breaking changes" from a versioning perspective.

[taion]

Would it be possible to reconsider this? With native ES module support in Node, the "deep" import no longer works at all.

It'd be convenient to have a general-purpose way to convert a Node buffer with the bytes for a UUID into the standard hex representation, and using the bytesToUuid here seems like one of the nicer ways to do so.

As a comparison, the UUID type in the Python standard library exposes a bytes parameter when constructing a UUID that allows doing exactly this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/uuid.html#uuid.UUID.

[taion]

The absence of an exposed bytesToUuid method might tempt one to use uuidv4({ random: ... }), which ... can then break subtly when that function is given, say, a UUIDv5, and lead to hard-to-diagnose bugs.

[ctavan]

We're currently considering to extend the API surface of this library (#455 (comment)), thank you for bringing up that use case.

We'll definitely discuss this!

[ctavan]

@wesleytodd @taion we have just released uuid@8.3.0-beta.0 which includes https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid#uuidstringifyarr-offset would you mind testing it and report if that works for you?

[ctavan]

Added in #479

[taion]

Passes our test suite. I'll deploy shortly, but I don't expect any problems. Will let you know if anything comes up, but assume it's working fine for us unless you hear otherwise.

[broofa]

Closing. @taion, please comment here if you have any issues and we'll reopen, or just open a new issue. Thanks for the input!

[ctavan]

We have just released uuid@8.3.0 which should fix this issue. Please report back if there any problems.

[taion]

Thanks!