mitkUIDGenerator.h

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/*============================================================================

The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
All rights reserved.

Use of this source code is governed by a 3-clause BSD license that can be
found in the LICENSE file.

============================================================================*/

#ifndef MITK_UID_GENERATOR_INDCLUDED_FASAWE
#define MITK_UID_GENERATOR_INDCLUDED_FASAWE

#include <MitkCoreExports.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <random>
#include <string>

namespace mitk
{
  class MITKCORE_EXPORT UIDGenerator
  {
  public:
    UIDGenerator(const char *prefix = "UID_", unsigned int lengthOfRandomPart = 8);

    std::string GetUID();

  private:
    std::string m_Prefix;
    unsigned int m_LengthOfRandomPart;
    std::uniform_int_distribution<unsigned long int> m_Distribution;
  };
} // namespace mitk

#endif