From 7c657572195d9931759417afc8c968099b8570b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gunnar Beutner <gunnar.beutner@netways.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:08:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Implement Utility::NewUUID().

Fixes #3589
---
 lib/base/i2-base.h   |  3 +++
 lib/base/utility.cpp | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 lib/base/utility.h   |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/base/i2-base.h b/lib/base/i2-base.h
index 85f814864..d09df3c1d 100644
--- a/lib/base/i2-base.h
+++ b/lib/base/i2-base.h
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ using std::type_info;
 #include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
 #include <boost/foreach.hpp>
 #include <boost/tuple/tuple.hpp>
+#include <boost/uuid/uuid.hpp>
+#include <boost/uuid/uuid_generators.hpp>
+#include <boost/uuid/uuid_io.hpp>
 
 using boost::shared_ptr;
 using boost::weak_ptr;
diff --git a/lib/base/utility.cpp b/lib/base/utility.cpp
index b4921fa68..66de8072d 100644
--- a/lib/base/utility.cpp
+++ b/lib/base/utility.cpp
@@ -373,3 +373,19 @@ Utility::LoadIcingaLibrary(const String& library, bool module)
 
 	return hModule;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Generates a new UUID.
+ *
+ * @returns The new UUID in text form.
+ */
+String Utility::NewUUID(void)
+{
+	boost::uuids::uuid uuid = boost::uuids::random_generator()();
+
+	stringstream us;
+	us << uuid;
+
+	return us.str();
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/base/utility.h b/lib/base/utility.h
index 9ac16d023..0aa34f92c 100644
--- a/lib/base/utility.h
+++ b/lib/base/utility.h
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ public:
 
 	static void Sleep(double timeout);
 
+	static String NewUUID(void);
+
 	static
 #ifdef _WIN32
 	HMODULE
-- 
2.40.0