I have a model with a CharField field with a default value of uuid4:
f = models.CharField(default=uuid4, max_length=36, unique=True, blank=True)
and this is causing the following error:
Cannot successfully create field 'f' for model 'm': name 'UUID' is not defined.
running the migrate commmand! Ho can I fix this issue? so far I tried:
...but the problem remains :(
ps. I know that I can instruct south for custom fields, but I'm not using custom fields in my opinion :P
I solved defining the following helper function in my model's module:
from uuid import uuid4
def generateUUID():
return str(uuid4())
then:
f = models.CharField(default=generateUUID, max_length=36, unique=True, editable=False)
south will generate a migration file (migrations.0001_initial) with a generated UUID like:
default='5c88ff72-def3-4842-8d48-a75bb3240bb5'
this is pretty unhappy... since that string is "static", instead it must be created dynamically using the helper function... anyway in the django's world al seems working as expected... I added some records into the database and a new UUID was generated for each one. I then tried my first schema migration by adding a couple of fields to my model and they has been added to the database table as expected.