How to use UUID in Django ?

Universally Unique Identifiers, or UUIDS, are 128 bit numbers, composed of 16 octets and represented as 32 base-16 characters, that can be used to identify information across a computer system. using UUID for your project can make your site more professional and reliable because of that for the most part ID of your resources are not humanly guessable also its unique from any other resource’s ID in the internet.

Django by default Utilize an integer ID which starts from 1 and increases as much as your database’s table row goes. This can be good enough for development purpose but in production its not a good practice. its recommended to use UUID.

To use UUID in your model there is only two steps to follow :

See the following code example of Django model with UUID:

See the above Django model with UUID id field:

So by using the above two lines of code you can easily add UUID instead of the default Django’s Integer ID field.

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