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richie
Community Hero
4 years ago
Hey juliobello,

Does it have to be 35 chars in length or will 13 suffice?

If the dynamic UUID generator is too long i tend to use a generator sourced via current timestamp in milliseconds.

I.e. ${=System.currentTimeMillis()} and this just generated the value of 1651104947608

Oh...all credit for this goes to nmrao....he showed me this.

If you want to continue using a UUID, we could put a bit of groovy together to strip out the hyphens from the UUID, but that'll require a separate groovy script (about 2 lines) rather than just using the dynamic scripting ${=path.to.method()} approach

Cheers,

Rich
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juliobello
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Hi, Richie...

There is nothing "sacred" about the parameter format, other than the fact that it must be 35 characters or less.  It does not have to be a UUID.  It was the first "random string generator" I found.  A timestamp in milliseconds will suffice.

I am new to this "groovy" scripting language.  I am interested in knowing for my edification how to "substring" a string.

Where is the complete "groovy" scripting language library specification?

Thank-you!