ShortUUIDField

CharField

• Installation

  pip install shortuuid
  

• default=shortuuid.uuid

  import shortuuid
  
  uid = models.CharField(_(u'uid'), max_length=255, default=shortuuid.uuid, help_text=u'User UUID', db_index=True)
  

  • Since Django 1.7, Core Django support Migrations
  • And above will be ValueError: Cannot serialize:
  • Detail See Migrations

UUIDField

New In Django 1.8

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#uuidfield

ShortUUIDField

• Installation

  pip install django-shortuuidfield
  

• Usage

  from shortuuidfield import ShortUUIDField
  
  uid = ShortUUIDField(_(u'uid'), max_length=255, help_text=u'User UUID', db_index=True)
  

References

[1] skorokithakis@Github, shortuuid — A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs

[2] nebstrebor@Github, django-shortuuidfield — Short UUID field for django