VIRIN Mock Services

FOR DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING PURPOSES ONLY

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VIRIN Generator

• Generates mock VIRIN (Visual Information Record Identification Number) strings based on the NITFS (National Imagery Transmission Format Standard).

• The VIRIN standard is a unique identifier for imagery and geospatial data used by the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies.

VIRIN regex pattern from SharedMediaManager.Components.Helper.cs (no date check):

• ^\d{6,6}-[AFMNGDOHSXZ]{1,1}-[A-Za-z\d]{5,5}-\d{3,3}\d?[A-Za-z]?(-[A-Za-z]{2,2})?$

Pattern with date check (redundancies have been removed):

• \b[0-9]{2}(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])-[AFMNGDOHSXZ]-[A-Za-z\d]{5}-\d{3}\d?[A-Za-z]?(-[A-Za-z]{2})?\b$

References:

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VIRIN
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170614121105/http://www.dimoc.mil/quick/virin.html

Use & Characteristics

• The VIRIN generator creates VIRINS for testing in a development environment only. This generator does not create VIRINs that are valid or usable in production.
• To use the tool: build it, run it, and enter the number of VIRINs you need created into the console. It will return mock VIRINs in the amount of the number you entered into the console.