UUID's as logentry PK

[lokeshwarobuli]

Is there any option to have UUID's as primary key for the logentry table, I tried overriding but got django.core.exceptions.FieldError: Local field 'id' in class 'LogEntry' clashes with field of the same name from base class 'LogEntry'.

when I tried to do something like below

from auditlog.models import LogEntry as AuditlogLogEntry
class LogEntryManager(AuditlogLogEntry):

id = models.UUIDField(
        primary_key=True,
        unique=True,
        default=uuid.uuid4,
        editable=False,
    )

[2ykwang]

@lokeshwarobuli this isn’t supported. In Django you can’t override a concrete field from a concrete base model “field name hiding is not permitted”

so redefining id on auditlog.LogEntry (to make it a UUIDField) will raise exactly the FieldError you’re seeing.

See Django docs - field-name-hiding-is-not-permitted

Could you share what underlying problem you’re trying to solve with a UUID primary key?

[lokeshwarobuli]

I don't wanna manage 2 id fields, the rest of the tables are using UUID's so I thought to stay consistent with the other tables, No other special reason for using UUID's