Implicit UUID auto fields for primary keys in Django ¶

file app_name/fields.py

import uuid

from django.db.backends.base.operations import BaseDatabaseOperations
from django.db.models import AutoField, UUIDField

BaseDatabaseOperations.integer_field_ranges['UUIDField'] = (0, 0)


class UUIDAutoField(UUIDField, AutoField):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        kwargs.setdefault('default', uuid.uuid4)
        kwargs.setdefault('editable', False)
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

file settings.py

DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'app_name.fields.UUIDAutoField'

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77142041/implicit-uuid-auto-fields-for-primary-keys-in-django#77142298