Without thinking too hard about it I created a column of type [UUID] and successfully stored "strings" (as noted in the documentation, and generally referred to as a separate type altogether) returned from DB::generateKey in it.
Feels like I've done something I shouldn't have.
Can anyone share some light on this. Thanks in advance.
Mostly they return different types.
For clarity, DB::generateKey is equivalent to Uuid::generate |> toString
According to the standard library docs, it's the return type.
Uuid::generate() -> UUID
Generate a new UUID v4 according to RFC 4122
DB::generateKey() -> Str
Returns a random key suitable for use as a DB key
I believe the UUID type is a bitstring representation, that is, a specific sequence of bits in memory.
Whereas the Str type is a string representation of a UUID.