samirelanduk / django-random-id-model

A model base class which creates long, random, integer primary keys.

Sam Ireland

I'm a developer, consultant, and UCL PhD based in London. I write a lot of code. I also write and do research.

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django-random-id-model's Issues

what if i set ID_DIGITS_LENGTH=1 and create 9 objects, what will happen after than?

Use PositiveBigIntegerField instead of BigIntegerField

Nice module, thanks !

Some fixture generators like Django-Baker will prefill this ID with random negative values, breaking e.g. URL resolution (because it expects a positive integer in the regex of placeholders of URLs)

So the simplest would be to use PositiveBigIntegerField, also allowing tiny optimizations at DB level maybe.

(Of course this can still be overridden at subclass level, so it's not very blocking)

ID field in admin

thanks for your package. I did as per readme 👍

from django_random_id_model import RandomIDModel

class Work(RandomIDModel):
	title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
	body = HTMLField()
	published = models.BooleanField(default=False, null=True)
	date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

the problem is that now in adming (or add forms) an ID is required so I need to enter it mantually?
I am confident that this was not interended behaviour so thanks in advance for your help!