Casting byte slice to UUID?

[phbcanada]

We are passing 16 byte binary UUIDs via grpc and need to be able to cast these from byte slice back to type uuid.UUID. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. It would be nice if the package had a method for this. This works but is there a better way?

   var b [16]byte

    copy(b[:], bslice)
    guid := uuid.UUID(b)

[loderunner]

We had the exact same issue with converting grpc bytes to uuid.UUID so I built a convenience constructor. It was merged with this pull request.

Here's how to create a uuid.UUID from a byte slice.

b := []byte{
    0x7d, 0x44, 0x48, 0x40,
    0x9d, 0xc0,
    0x11, 0xd1,
    0xb2, 0x45,
    0x5f, 0xfd, 0xce, 0x74, 0xfa, 0xd2,
}
buuid, err := uuid.FromBytes(b)

[phbcanada]

Awesome. Thanks!