[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Add UUID support to Asterisk

[Mark Michelson]

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    This should say section 4.4 instead of 4.2


- Mark


On Nov. 27, 2012, 6:05 p.m., Mark Michelson wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 27, 2012, 6:05 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers, Matt Jordan and David Lee.
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> Summary
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> This is the first of many parts of the overall goal of improving Asterisk APIs. This adds a UUID API to Asterisk, eventually to be used as a method of uniquely identifying channels and potentially other objects.
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> The implementation here uses libuuid, which is packaged by all major Linux distributions. The API is basically a wrapper around libuuid's API, but it hides all implementation details in case we want to switch out libraries at some point.
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> Licensing for libuuid is a bit confusing. On one hand, this online man page (http://linux.die.net/man/3/libuuid) claims that the library is distributed under the LGPL version 2. However, when I downloaded the source for the library on my machine, the code had the 3-clause BSD license printed in the source. In either case, I believe use of external library is license-compatible with Asterisk.
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> Regarding specific implementation decisions, I think comments in the code should explain why I chose to do things certain ways. Please let me know if anything should be done differently or if you have ideas for tests beyond what I have already included.
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> I have no idea what is up with the changes listed in autoconfig.h.in. Those changes showed up when I ran the bootstrap.sh script after changing configure.ac. 
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> This addresses bug ASTERISK-20725.
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20725
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/configure UNKNOWN 
>   /trunk/configure.ac 376687 
>   /trunk/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in 376687 
>   /trunk/include/asterisk/uuid.h PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/main/Makefile 376687 
>   /trunk/main/asterisk.c 376687 
>   /trunk/main/uuid.c PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/tests/test_uuid.c PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2217/diff
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> Testing
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> I have included a set of unit tests that exercise all the APIs. They pass when run locally.
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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