# Copyright (C) 2013 INRIA
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation;
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# Should it be made thread-safe?
class GuidGenerator(object):
def __init__(self):
- self._guids = list()
+ self._last_guid = 0
def next(self, guid = None):
- if guid != None:
- return guid
- else:
- last_guid = 0 if len(self._guids) == 0 else self._guids[-1]
- guid = last_guid + 1
- self._guids.append(guid)
- self._guids.sort()
+ if guid == None:
+ guid = self._last_guid + 1
+
+ self._last_guid = self._last_guid if guid <= self._last_guid else guid
+
return guid