Core: Update UUID handling to be more easily sharable between libraries (#5088)

moves uuid caching to appdata and uuid generation to be a random uuid instead of getnode's hardware address driven identifier and updates docs to point to the shared cache
2025-10-21 12:11:33 -06:00 · 2025-07-15 00:10:40 -05:00
parent ec3f168a09
commit f45410c917
2 changed files with 15 additions and 5 deletions
--- a/docs/network
+++ b/docs/network
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Sent by the client to initiate a connection to an Archipelago game session.
 | password       | str                               | If the game session requires a password, it should be passed here.                           |
 | game           | str                               | The name of the game the client is playing. Example: `A Link to the Past`                    |
 | name           | str                               | The player name for this client.                                                             |
-| uuid           | str                               | Unique identifier for player client.                                                         |
+| uuid           | str                               | Unique identifier for player. Cached in the user cache \Archipelago\Cache\common.json        |
 | version        | [NetworkVersion](#NetworkVersion) | An object representing the Archipelago version this client supports.                         |
 | items_handling | int                               | Flags configuring which items should be sent by the server. Read below for individual flags. |
 | tags           | list\[str\]                       | Denotes special features or capabilities that the sender is capable of. [Tags](#Tags)        |