Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #12253: UUID Valid String Semantics are Erratic

component changed; owner set

Michel Morin — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:23:43 GMT

owner set to Andy Tompkins
component None → uuid

jim.king@… — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:49:56 GMT

I can confirm this behavior in boost 1.62 as well:

    //! Convert a string to a GUID
    inline GUID stog(const std::string& gs)
    {
        BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(GUID) == sizeof(boost::uuids::uuid));
        GUID result;
        memcpy(&result, boost::uuids::string_generator()(gs).data, sizeof(GUID));
        return result;
    }

Sitting in the debugger, we see I passed in an invalid uuid string but I got back a GUID that has FFFF in place of the "zzzz" I put in there:

+	gs	                   "83f8638b-8dca-4152-zzzz-2ca8b33039b4"	const
+	&result	0x0000005305f9ed38 {8B63F883-CA8D-5241-FFFF-2CA8B33039B4}	_GUID *

I would also like to see the parser here changed to be much more strict.

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:59:29 GMT

A fix for this can be found in PR https://github.com/boostorg/uuid/pull/17/files

milestone changed

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:26:00 GMT

milestone Boost 1.61.0 → To Be Determined

I changed the milestone from 1.61.0 to "To Be Determined" because it wasn't fixed in 1.61.0

owner changed

James E. King, III — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:11:38 GMT

owner changed from Andy Tompkins to James E. King, III

milestone changed

James E. King, III — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:11:49 GMT

milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.66.0

status changed; resolution set

James E. King, III — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:11:58 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed