UUIDs in CouchDB

Question

I am wondering about the format UUIDs are by default represented in CouchDB. While the RFC 4122 describes UUIDs like 550e8400-e29b-11d4-a716-446655440000, CouchDB u

Answer 1

K I can provide some 2019 reference from the doc site: "it's in any case preferable to provide one's own uuids" -- https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/best-practices/documents.html?highlight=uuid

I ran slap bang into this because the (hobby) db I'm attempting as a first programming anything, deals with an application that does generate and use 4122 -compliant uuids and I was chewing my nails worrying about stripping the "-" bits out and putting them back on retrieval.

Before it hit me that the uuid that couchdb uses as the doc _id is a string not a number... doh. So I use the app's uuid generated when it creates an object to _id the document. No random duplicated uuids.