Webis UUID Tool

Generator for version 5 (name-based SHA1) UUIDs to identify records in generated web corpus MapFiles.

Building the Source Code

Run

./gradlew build

inside the source directory. The generated JAR file will be in jar/webis-uuid.jar.

Example Usage

Command-line usage:

java -jar jar/webis-uuid.jar clueweb12 clueweb12-0200wb-93-16911

API usage:

import de.webis.WebisUUID;

// ...

System.out.println(WebisUUID.generateUUID("clueweb12", "clueweb12-0200wb-93-16911"));

Result: 7f476110-58fd-5698-b104-8b29c3ac6d55.

Other Languages

The Python standard library comes with UUID5 support out of the box and does not need this utility. The UUID from the example above can be generated in Python with

import uuid

uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_URL, "clueweb12:clueweb12-0200wb-93-16911")