encode UUIDs as bytes.. This shrinks the pubkey string significantly...

ui/cli.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def _makeuuid(s):
 	if isinstance(s, uuid.UUID):
 		return s
 
-	return uuid.UUID(s)
+	return uuid.UUID(bytes=s)
 
 # XXX - known issue, store is not atomic/safe, overwrites in place instead of renames
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class Identity(MDBase):
 
 def _trytodict(o):
 	if isinstance(o, uuid.UUID):
-		return 'unicode', str(o)
+		return 'bytes', o.bytes
 	try:
 		return 'dict', o.__to_dict__()
 	except Exception:	# pragma: no cover
@@ -688,6 +688,15 @@ class _TestCases(unittest.TestCase):
 		# and that they are equal
 		self.assertEqual(obj, decobj)
 
+		# and in the encoded object
+		eobj = _asn1coder.loads(coded)
+
+		# the uuid property is a str instance
+		self.assertIsInstance(eobj['uuid'], str)
+
+		# and has the length of 16
+		self.assertEqual(len(eobj['uuid']), 16)
+
 	def test_mdbase_wrong_type(self):
 		# that created_by_ref can be passed by kw
 		obj = MetaData(created_by_ref=self.created_by_ref)
@@ -855,7 +864,7 @@ class _TestCases(unittest.TestCase):
 
 		objst.loadobj({
 			'type': 'metadata',
-			'uuid': 'c9a1d1e2-3109-4efd-8948-577dc15e44e7',
+			'uuid': uuid.UUID('c9a1d1e2-3109-4efd-8948-577dc15e44e7'),
 			'modified': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 31, 14, 3, 10),
 			'created_by_ref': self.created_by_ref,
 			'hashes': [ 'sha256:91751cee0a1ab8414400238a761411daa29643ab4b8243e9a91649e25be53ada' ],
@@ -885,11 +894,11 @@ class _TestCases(unittest.TestCase):
 
 		self.assertEqual(len(objs), len(objst))
 
-		self.assertEqual(objs['created_by_ref'], str(self.created_by_ref))
+		self.assertEqual(objs['created_by_ref'], self.created_by_ref.bytes)
 
 		for i in objs['objects']:
-			i['created_by_ref'] = uuid.UUID(i['created_by_ref'])
-			i['uuid'] = uuid.UUID(i['uuid'])
+			i['created_by_ref'] = uuid.UUID(bytes=i['created_by_ref'])
+			i['uuid'] = uuid.UUID(bytes=i['uuid'])
 			self.assertEqual(objst.by_id(i['uuid']), i)
 
 		testfname = os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'test.txt')

ui/fixtures/genfixtures.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import pasn1
 import cli
 import datetime
+import uuid
 
 persona = cli.Persona()
 persona.generate_key()
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ map(objst.loadobj,
 	[
 		{
 			'type': 'metadata',
-			'uuid': '3e466e06-45de-4ecc-84ba-2d2a3d970e96',
+			'uuid': uuid.UUID('3e466e06-45de-4ecc-84ba-2d2a3d970e96'),
 			'created_by_ref': cbr,
 			'modified': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 31, 14, 5, 3),
 			'dc:creator': [ u'John-Mark Gurney' ],