Uuid as id on records

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I’m in the process of upgrading a CakePHP2 app to CakePHP4. In version 2 I had several database tables that was using varchar(36) as the id. CakePHP2 would automatically generate a uuid for those fields. That doesn’t appear to be working in version 4 for me. I can’t seem to find any documentation on it. Does anyone know if that’s still there in version 4 and where the documentation might be?

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Here are metions of UUIDs that related to the feature you want. None seem to go straight to the heart, but clearly the feature still exists

https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/intro/conventions.html#database-conventions

https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/orm/database-basics.html#data-types

https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/orm/saving-data.html#creating-with-an-existing-primary-key

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Thanks for the references. So once I changed it from varchar(36) to char(36), it started working.

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