How to create a Sha1 Digest UUID from a string?

[William Jamieson]

I saw this forum thread: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... 15&p=72918

There are no livecode lessons for this. The dictionary talks about namespaces and names, but I couldn't find out what those mean in the dictionary. I checked stack overflow, LC facebook page, etc. and still can't find any examples. So I thought I would ask you guys.

How do you create a UUID from a string?

I am trying to build a string that turns into a hex Sha1.

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put "public_id=" & kPublicID & "&timestamp=" & the seconds & kSecret into tKey
put UUID("SHA1", tKey) into sTokenID

That is what I want to write but it wont even let me save it. So what can I do to make this right?

Thanks guys n gals!

-Will

[William Jamieson]

Ok I found this code

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command hexDigest 
   local tRes, tSHA1
   put "public_id=" & kPublicID & "&timestamp=" & the seconds & kSecret into tKey
  put sha1digest(tKey) into tSHA1
  get binaryDecode("H*",tSHA1,tRes)
end hexDigest

In this thread.

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... est#p55830

Can someone with tell me if this is correct? Thanks

-Will

[scrabbles]

Hi Will,

That sha1digest code you found looks like it might work to me, but you should be able to use the uuid("sha1",uuid(),"api_secret") format as well, just depends on what you're supposed to use from cloudinary (maybe grep their doco for namespace_ i'm guessing it wll be url).

I found this on SO which might help explain it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1086 ... -namespace . The python doco is also not bad for this too https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/uuid.html

hope that helps

– Mark