com.fasterxml.uuid

Class UUIDClock

java.lang.Object

com.fasterxml.uuid.UUIDClock

public class UUIDClock
extends Object

UUIDClock is used by UUIDTimer to get the current time. The default implementation returns the time from the system clock, but this class can be overriden to return any number. This is useful when UUIDs with past or future timestamps should be generated, or when UUIDs must be generated in a reproducible manner.

Since:

3.3

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UUIDClock()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	currentTimeMillis() Returns the current time in milliseconds.
static UUIDClock	systemTimeClock()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UUIDClock

public UUIDClock()

Method Detail

systemTimeClock

public static final UUIDClock systemTimeClock()

Since:

4.3

currentTimeMillis

public long currentTimeMillis()

Returns the current time in milliseconds.