Norman Richards

I wanted to have a UUID primary field in a django model.  It isn't hard to create a CharField with a value that defaults to a UUID.   The django_extensions has a UUIDField is a nice all in one solution.  It works well as a primary key, except for a messy case with InlineModelAdmin which only allows non-editable primary keys if they are an AutoField.   

The workaround I found, after digging through the code a bit was to mimic the behavior of AutoField to trick InlineModelAdmin into doing the right thing.  I extended UUIDField like this:

After a bit more searching, I later found this was a known bug.  More interestingly, one of the commenters on the bug had considered the same solution and rejected it.  Take a look at the bug report for his reasoning, but the error condition he points out only occurs when the default value is None.  If the field has a default value, as is the case with this CharField-extended model, the potentially problematic logic doesn't kick in.  I haven't battle-tested the solution yet, but initial testing looks like it performs correctly.