CodeIgniter 4 UUID

This package make it easy to work with UUIDs in Codeigniter 4. It provide four classes to make that possible: Uuid, UuidModel, UuidEntity and UuidCast. This implementation is tighly coupled with Ramsey\Uuid.

Installation via composer

composer require michalsn/codeigniter4-uuid

Manual installation

Download this repo and then enable it by editing app/Config/Autoload.php and adding the Michalsn\UuidModel namespace to the $psr4 array. For example, if you copied it into app/ThirdParty:

<?php

$psr4 = [
    'Config'      => APPPATH . 'Config',
    APP_NAMESPACE => APPPATH,
    'App'         => APPPATH,
    'Michalsn\Uuid' => APPPATH . 'ThirdParty/codeigniter4-uuid/src',
];

Versions

CodeIgniter version	This package version
>= 4.5	>= 1.1
< 4.5	< 1.1

How to use it

In general, using UuidModel and UuidEntity is no much different than using the original classes provided with CodeIgniter 4 framework. We just have some additional config options. There is a good chance that you will not need to use Uuid class at all, because most of the things that happens are already automated.

Uuid

Working with Uuid class is really simple:

<?php

$uuid = service('uuid');
// will prepare UUID4 object
$uuid4 = $uuid->uuid4();
// will assign UUID4 as string
$string = $uuid4->toString();
// will assign UUID4 as byte string
$byte_string = $uuid4->getBytes();

If you have any additional configuration options to set to a specific UUID version then you can do it via config file.

UuidModel

UUID fields are always returned as a string even if we store them in byte format in the database. This decision was made because of the convenience of use. We don't have to worry about field type or conversion of the data.

Parameter	Default value	Description
$uuidVersion	uuid4	Defines the UUID version to use.
$uuidUseBytes	true	Defines if the UUID should be stored in byte format in the database. This is recommended since will allow us to save over half the space. Also, it's quite easy to use, because we always translate UUID to a string form when retrieving the data or to a byte form when we are saving it.
$uuidFields	['id']	Defines the fields that will be treated as UUID. By default we assume it will be a primary key, but it can be any field or fields you want.

Now, let's see a simple example, how to use UuidModel in your code. In example below, there are no additional changes except that our model extends UuidModel. The primary key will be stored as UUID4 in the byte format in the database.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Michalsn\Uuid\UuidModel;

class Project1Model extends UuidModel
{
    protected $table      = 'projects_1';
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';

    protected $returnType = 'array';
    protected $useSoftDeletes = true;

    protected $allowedFields = ['name', 'description', 'created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at'];

    protected $useTimestamps = true;

    protected $validationRules = [
        'name' => 'required|min_length[3]',
        'description' => 'required',
    ];
}

Now, here is an example where we will use the UUID but not as a primary key.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Michalsn\Uuid\UuidModel;

class Project2Model extends UuidModel
{
    protected $uuidFields = ['category_id'];

    protected $table      = 'projects_2';
    protected $primaryKey = 'id';

    protected $returnType = 'array';
    protected $useSoftDeletes = true;

    protected $allowedFields = ['category_id', 'name', 'description', 'created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at'];

    protected $useTimestamps = true;

    protected $validationRules = [
        'category_id' => 'required',
        'name' => 'required|min_length[3]',
        'description' => 'required',
    ];
}

UuidEntity

Using the UuidEntity is only required if we store UUID fields in the byte format. In other case there are no benefits over original Entity class. The same as in the UuidModel, by default we assume that only primary key will have the UUID type.

Parameter	Default value	Description
$uuids	['id']	Defines the fields that will be treated as UUID. By default we assume it will be a primary key, but it can be any field or fields you want.

Now let's see a two examples which will match those for models that were previously shown.

<?php

namespace App\Entities;

use Michalsn\Uuid\UuidEntity;

class Project1Entity extends UuidEntity
{
    protected $attributes = [
        'id' => null,
        'name' => null,
        'description' => null,
        'created_at' => null,
        'updated_at' => null,
        'deleted_at' => null,
    ];
}

<?php

namespace App\Entities;

use Michalsn\Uuid\UuidEntity;

class Project2Entity extends UuidEntity
{
    protected $uuids = ['category_id'];

    protected $attributes = [
        'id' => null,
        'category_id' => null,
        'name' => null,
        'description' => null,
        'created_at' => null,
        'updated_at' => null,
        'deleted_at' => null,
    ];
}

And that pretty much it. No more changes are needed.

UuidCast

NOTE: Don't use this casting class if you intend to use the UuidModel class.

Since CodeIgniter now allows the use of custom cast classes in Entities, we've also added our own casting class. This casting class enables the UUID to be converted from byte to string during data retrieval and reverse on data setting. Normally you will not use the cast function as the transition from strings to bytes is done in the UuidModel class. With that in mind, you should only use this cast feature when you want to work with the Entity without using UuidModel class later.

This is a simple example of how we would use our casting class with Entity.

<?php

namespace App\Entities;

class MyEntity extends Entity
{
    protected $casts = [
        'id' => 'uuid',
    ];

    protected $castHandlers = [
        'uuid' => 'Michalsn\Uuid\UuidCast',
    ];
}

Limitations

For now this class doesn't support SQLite3 database when you want to strore UUIDs in a byte format.

Supported UUID versions

• Version 1: Time-based - uuid1
• Version 2: DCE Security - uuid2
• Version 3: Name-based (MD5) - uuid3
• Version 4: Random - uuid4
• Version 5: Name-based (SHA-1) - uuid5
• Version 6: Ordered-Time (nonstandard yet) - uuid6

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.