NAME

POE::Event::Message::UniqueID - Generic messaging header identifier

VERSION

This document describes version 0.02, released November, 2005.

SYNOPSIS

 use POE::Event::Message::UniqueID;

 $ident = POE::Event::Message::Header->generate();

 POE::Event::Message::Header->verifyGenerateUniqueID();

DESCRIPTION

This class is used to generate a guaranteed unique identifier.

Warning: If the Time::HiRes module is not installed on the local machine the possibility of duplicate identifiers does exist.

Constructor

None.

Methods

generate ( )

Generate a unique identifier.

verifyGenerateUniqueID ( )

This method can be used to verify that unique identifiers are generated without any duplicates.

DEPENDENCIES

This class depends upon the following classes:

 Time::HiRes

INHERITANCE

None currently.

SEE ALSO

See Time::HiRes.

AUTHOR

Chris Cobb [no dot spam at ccobb dot net]

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 by Hewlett-Packard. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.