Using uuid for edit/delete in CRUD

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CakePHP 4.4.14
friendsofcake/crud: 6.2.0

For simply security reasons and also not to reveal the amount of rows in the table I want to use the uuid field for the edit/delete actions.

Usually it works like this /edit/123. This is exactly what I don’t want to have. Therefore I want to change it to /edit/446a1a76-4eac-4b2d-8825-7e3a7e91f4a0.

Yep, and now I get the error message that it cannot be converted to number; this is correct, because uuid is not a number.

I checked the events but there is - also according to the CRUD documentation - the WHERE already set.

query A Query object from the Repository where $PrimaryKey => $IdFromRequest is already added to the conditions.

How can I set/change the field in the query to uuid. As I understand it, it must be done before beforeFind because the type for the parameter is already set to integer and uuid is not an integer.

    $this->Crud->on('beforeFind', function(\Cake\Event\EventInterface $event) {
        $event->getSubject()->query->where(['uuid' => "uuid-as-string]);
    });

Doesn’t work because the condition is added and the id remains in the query.

To make it clear: Each table has the primary key id - according to the CakePHP rules - but each table has also the field uuid which is used for public access. Internally the project uses the id.

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Solution is here.