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 the number of VIRINs entered into the console.