canonical string representation

[John Davis]

I tried to instantiate an object of the class UUID but the constructor requires a String argument which is a "canonical string representation." This requirement seems to be a bit obtuse. Does anybody know what a "canonical string representation" is, and of what?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

You'd have to tell us where the class UUID is coming from; there's no such class in the J2SE 1.4 API, for example. What package is your UUID class in? There's an org.w3c.util.UUID floating around, but it doesn't have such a constructor.

[a young]

well since this is the beginner forum I'm gonna assume the answer is easy:
instead of doing this:
UUID yourUUID = new UUID();
do this:
UUID yourUUID = new UUID("Some String goes here");