fte:uuid Ant task

Generates a pseudo-random unique identifier and assigns it to a given property. For example, you can use this identifier to generate job names for other file transfer operations.

Attributes

length: Required. The numeric length of UUID to generate. This length value does not include the length of any prefix, specified by the prefix parameter.
property: Required. The name of the property to assign the generated UUID to.
prefix: Optional. A prefix to add to the generated UUID. This prefix is not counted as part of the length of the UUID, as specified by the length parameter.

Example

This example defines a UUID that starts with the letters ABC followed by 16 pseudo-random hex characters. The UUID is assigned to a property named uuid.property.


<fte:uuid length="16" property="uuid.property" prefix="ABC"/>