From 5f55d8809be3c066c7842533318dd6fd8c28e06d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Pearkes Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:23:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] website: clarify uuid format (#5014) --- website/source/api/index.html.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/source/api/index.html.md b/website/source/api/index.html.md index 8149870bc..0740fe336 100644 --- a/website/source/api/index.html.md +++ b/website/source/api/index.html.md @@ -269,3 +269,12 @@ to allow clients to know if address translation is in effect, the `X-Consul-Translate-Addresses` header will be added if translation is enabled, and will have a value of `true`. If translation is not enabled then this header will not be present. + +## UUID Format + +UUID-format identifiers generated by the Consul API use the +[hashicorp/go-uuid](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid) library. + +These UUID-format strings are generated using high quality, purely random bytes. +It is not intended to be RFC compliant, merely to use a well-understood string +representation of a 128-bit value.