How about using crypto.randomUUID() to generate uuid v4

[noritaka1166]

Describe the feature

Currently, the aws-sdk uses the uuid package to generate uuid v4.
Since crypto.randomUUID() can also generate them, why not use this instead?

Use Case

This would reduce the number of packages we depend on.

Proposed Solution

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Other Information

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Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

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Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

[kuhe]

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_crypto_randomuuid seems fine to use.

If you attempt the PR it would have to go in https://github.com/smithy-lang/smithy-typescript first.

[kuhe]

This is a good feature request but we are unable to estimate when we could fulfill it.

We need a backup method to load a polyfill if crypto.randomUUID() is not available in the runtime environment.

Environments of concern are lower versions of Node.js and React-Native.

[trivikr]

The crypto.randomUUID is not available in react-native environment.

We can ask users on react-native to install a polyfill like react-native-random-uuid. But it has 3K downloads, so most customers would not have it installed in their applications. And this will change will be seen as a breaking change.

We already need to write our own utility as crypto is not available globally in some Node.js versions
smithy-lang/smithy-typescript#1657 (comment)

The react-native users already have react-native-get-random-values polyfill installed.
Maybe we can use that to write polyfill specifically for v4 in react-native.

[kuhe]

This was completed by @trivikr as of https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/releases/tag/v3.896.0.