Does exists in slice language the UUID type?

1) As for int, long or string, slice language have a UUID type?
2) Can I define a const type for an UUID?
3) Exists a 128 bit primitive type?

Hi,

There's no UUID type in Slice. However, you can easily pass a UUID with a string, a sequence of bytes or a struct depending on your needs. See here in the manual for more information on the basic types supported by Slice.

Cheers,
Benoit.

But
1) sequence of bytes cannot be defined ad a const in slice file
and
2) a string is too large agaist a long pair and noisy to convert every time from client to server

Do you have intention to introduce the UUID type?

Hi Maurizio,

No, there is no plan to add a UUID type to Slice, or any new integer type.

I don't understand your concern with respect to constants. What are you trying to do that can only be achieved with a Slice UUID constant? Why not use a plain C++/Java/(...) constant?

Cheers,
Bernard

Is not an important problem. I know that can be solved in other ways. It's only a style question.

I'm using UUID as object identifiers but I don't want to serialize them as string when an UUID is simply a "long long" data.
So I'm using a struct similar to this:

struct OID { long msb; long lsb; };

Now I have some special OID for some well knowed objects. I would like to add these ids in slice definition file. Becaose would be the better solution.
But i cannot define const of my OID type in slice file.

I know there are many way to solve that but they are not so elegant.