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tp/ident
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A library to add identity to objects

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ident
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A library to provide an interface to object "identities and identifiers".

###### Note

[](#note)

This documentation is still a work in progress and subject to change at any given time.

Features
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[](#features)

- POC of a common interface to object identity
- Various implementations of Identifiers (`UuidIdentifier`, `BinaryUuidIdentifier`, `StringIndentifier`, `NullIdentifier`)
- Annotation driven configuration (YAML and XML are in the pipeline) of object identifier(s) (requires `jms/metadata: >= 1.1` and `doctrine/annotations: >= 1.0`).
- Doctrine2 ORM integration (requires `doctrine/orm: >= 2.x`).
- `BinaryUuidType` DBAL Type (requires `doctrine/dbal: >= 2.5.x-dev`) to save some storage in the underlying database implementation (though you should keep index fragmentation in mind when using this as a primary key).
- A `HashFactory` to easily generate unique hashes of various algorithms based of random byte data (requires `symfony/security: >=2.3`).

Introduction
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**Identity** is a very important concept in our every day lives. If you imagine a class `Person`, it is clear that this `Person` must have an identity.

There is a vast variety of various implementations of `Identity`, and this library tries to provide a common **interface** to deal with this.

A `Person` **`HasIdentity`**:

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