How to have models.UUIDField field without dash
Use CharField
field instead of UUIDField
,
def generate_uuid():
return uuid.uuid4().hex
class Profile(models.Model):
api_key = models.CharField(default=generate_uuid, editable=False, unique=True, max_length=40)
Are you using PostgreSQL by any chance? The UUIDField
may be using the native uuid
type for the column. It stores it efficiently using only 16 bytes (without dashes). If that is the case, it is not storing the dashes, only showing them when you select
.
The good news is that in Python code you are getting a UUID
object, so you can do self.api_key.hex
to get a string without dashes.