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diff --git a/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/docs/uuid.md b/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/docs/uuid.md deleted file mode 100644 index 429e3a0..0000000 --- a/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/docs/uuid.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -<!-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public - - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this - - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. --> - -Module `uuid` provides low level API for generating / parsing UUID, that may -be necessary when hacking on internals of the platform. - - -## Generate UUID - -Module exports `uuid` function. When called without arguments it will uses -platform-specific methods to obtain a `nsID` that can be considered to be -globally unique. - - let uuid = require('api-utils/uuid').uuid() - -## Parsing UUID - -Sometimes one might need to create `nsID` from an existing UUID string. Same -`uuid` function may be used to parse such UUID strings into an `nsID`: - - let { uuid } = require('api-utils/uuid'); - let firefoxUUID = uuid('{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}'); - -For more details about UUID representations and what they are used for by the -platform see MDN documentation for -[JSID](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIJSID) |