Method Detail

• generateNewMachineUniqueName

  java.lang.String generateNewMachineUniqueName(ConfigBag setup)

  Generate a name for a new machine, based on context.

  The name should normally be unique, as a context might produce multiple machines, for example basing it partially on information from the context but also including some random salt.

• generateNewGroupId

  java.lang.String generateNewGroupId(ConfigBag setup)

  Generate a name stem for a group of machines, based on context.

  The name does not need to be unique, as uniqueness will be applied by #generateNewMachineUniqueNameFromGroupId(String).

• generateNewMachineUniqueNameFromGroupId

  java.lang.String generateNewMachineUniqueNameFromGroupId(ConfigBag setup,
                                                         java.lang.String groupId)

  Generate a unique name from the given name stem.

  The name stem is normally based on context information so the usual function of this method is to apply a suffix which helps to uniquely distinguish between machines in cases where the same name stem (#generateNewGroupId()) is used for multiple machines.