Adding the ability to encode/decode to/from Base64 and Base32

[asahaf]

I've found myself encoding the UUID to Base64 and Base32 string in multiple projects I worked on. Do you think it's a good idea if we add this encoding and decoding to this library or that's out of its scope? Thanks

[zerkms]

What's the use case? I personally never seen it encoded anything but binary or hex-string.

[asahaf]

One use case is when I use UUIDs in URLs. Base64 produces shorter string representation. in case I need shorter case-insensitive UUID string I use Base32.

[cameracker]

Equivalent functionality is https://www.npmjs.com/package/short-uuid

[dylan-bourque]

Personally, I'd argue that this would be an unnecessary extension, since it would essentially be 1-line pass-through calls to base64.UrlEncoding.EncodeToString(u.Bytes()) and base32.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(u.Bytes()).

[wolfeidau]

I have a wrapper which uses base58, a handy middle ground which is used widely https://github.com/wolfeidau/shortuuid, as you say it is a pretty simple wrapper around existing UUID libraries.

Keen to migrate this to this library so i can try out v6 UUIDs.