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package org.cp.elements.lang.support;

import java.util.UUID;

import org.cp.elements.lang.IdentifierSequence;

/**
 * The UUIDIdentifierSequence class is an implementation of the {@link IdentifierSequence} interface generating
 * unique, String-typed identifiers in a sequence of IDs using the {@link java.util.UUID} class.
 *
 * @author John J. Blum
 * @see java.lang.String
 * @see java.util.UUID
 * @see org.cp.elements.lang.IdentifierSequence
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class UUIDIdentifierSequence implements IdentifierSequence {

  /**
   * Generates the next unique ID in sequence.
   *
   * @return the next unique String ID in the sequence.
   * @see java.util.UUID#randomUUID()
   */
  @Override
  public String nextId() {
    return UUID.randomUUID().toString();
  }

}