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An interface for accessing Cloudscape UUIDs, universally unique identifiers. A Cloudscape UUID is expected to be unique across all Cloudscape databases.
The values in the system catalog held in ID columns with a type of CHAR(36) are the string representations of these UUIDs. CHAR(36) is used in the system catalog since in the current release, Java data types are not indexable.
If you do not need your id column indexed, you can use this type directly for the column type; if you need an index, then you can create UUIDs with this class and store their toString values in indexed CHAR(36) columns.
A UUID implements equals() and hashCode based on value equality.
The toString() method produces a string representation of this UUID which can be passed to UUIDFactory.recreateUUID later on to reconstruct it.
public static final int UUID_BYTE_LENGTH
public abstract String toANSIidentifier()
public abstract byte[] toByteArray()
public abstract UUID cloneMe()
public abstract String toHexString()
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