1 /**
2 * Copyright 2010 The Kuali Foundation Licensed under the
3 * Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
4 * not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
5 * obtain a copy of the License at
6 *
7 * http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0
8 *
9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
10 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
11 * BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
12 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing
13 * permissions and limitations under the License.
14 */
15
16 package org.kuali.student.common.util;
17
18
19 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
20
21 public class UUIDHelper {
22
23 private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(UUIDHelper.class);
24
25 public static String genStringUUID() {
26 return java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString();
27 }
28
29 public static String genStringUUID(String originalUUID) {
30 if (originalUUID != null && !originalUUID.isEmpty()) {
31 try {
32 return java.util.UUID.fromString(originalUUID).toString();
33 } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
34 LOG.warn("Given ID \""+originalUUID+"\" is not a valid UUID. ");
35 }
36 return originalUUID;
37 }
38 return genStringUUID();
39 }
40 }