2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bsfs/utils/errors.py b/bsfs/utils/errors.py
index be9d40e..6ae6484 100644
--- a/bsfs/utils/errors.py
+++ b/bsfs/utils/errors.py
@@ -41,4 +41,7 @@ class ConfigError(_BSFSError):
 class BackendError(_BSFSError):
     """Could not parse an AST structure."""
 
+class UnsupportedError(_BSFSError):
+    """Some requested functionality is not supported by an implementation."""
+
 ## EOF ##
diff --git a/bsfs/utils/uuid.py b/bsfs/utils/uuid.py
index 6366b18..ba5cf52 100644
--- a/bsfs/utils/uuid.py
+++ b/bsfs/utils/uuid.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Author: Matthias Baumgartner, 2022
 # imports
 from collections import abc
 import hashlib
+import json
 import os
 import platform
 import random
@@ -105,4 +106,10 @@ class UCID():
         with open(path, 'rb') as ifile:
             return HASH(ifile.read()).hexdigest()
 
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def from_dict(content: dict) -> str:
+        """Get the content from a dict."""
+        return HASH(json.dumps(content).encode('ascii', 'ignore')).hexdigest()
+
 ## EOF ##