protected File setData(String data, String suffix) {
// uuid timestamp script
UUID gen = UUID.randomUUID();
File script = new File(String.valueOf(gen.toString()) + suffix);
// duplicate avoidance
while (script.exists()) {
// try to wait a short random time
try {
wait((int) (Math.random() * 100));
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
LogHandler.writeStackTrace(log, e, Level.WARNING);
}
gen = UUID.randomUUID();
script = new File(String.valueOf(gen.timestamp()));
}
// Writes data to script
PrintWriter pw = null;
try {
script.createNewFile();
pw = new PrintWriter(script);
} catch (IOException e) {
LogHandler.writeStackTrace(log, e, Level.SEVERE);
return null;
}
pw.write(data);
pw.close();
return script;
}
/**
* Solution taken from
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13070674/get-the-unix-timestamp-from-type-1-uuid
*
* @param uuid type 1 (time based) uuid
* @return unixTimestamp of uuid
*/
public long toUnixTimestamp(final UUID uuid) {
final Calendar uuidEpoch = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
uuidEpoch.clear();
uuidEpoch.set(1582, OCTOBER, 15, 0, 0, 0);
final long epochMillis = uuidEpoch.getTime().getTime();
return (uuid.timestamp() / 10000L) + epochMillis;
}