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Reputation: 552

Laravel's uuid type

I was reading Laravel's documentation that I noticed Laravel 7 offers a uuid type in the page for database migrations

Unfortunately I couldn't find much information about using it in the documentation. How is such a column filled when I insert a new record? Does Laravel fill it on its own? Does Laravel guarantee it to be unique or should I worry about collisions? Can I use this field to create short links for the posts of a blog, for example?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 349

Answers (1)

Adam Rodriguez
Adam Rodriguez

Reputation: 1856

Laravel should fill this on its own by setting the keyType(untested) on your model:

protected $keyType = 'string';

The key, whether you fill it manually or not, is unique as laravel depends on Ramsey.

To manually acquire a uuid you may use the provided helper:

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

return (string) Str::uuid();

Upvotes: 1

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