I am trying to seed a uuid using sequilize generateUUID but i get this error Seed file failed with error: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function TypeError: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function
how do i seed a UUID?
return queryInterface.bulkInsert('companies', [{ id: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID(), name: 'Testing', updated_at: new Date(), created_at: new Date() }]); just install uuid:
npm install uuid and on your seed file:
const uuidv4 = require('uuid/v4'); module.exports = { up: (queryInterface, Sequelize) => { return queryInterface.bulkInsert('yourTableName', [ { id: uuidv4() }], {}); 
uuid under the hood so the package should already be available. Sequelize doesn't expose the uuidv4 method in a useful way though.
DeprecationWarning: Deep requiring like 'const uuidv4 = require('uuid/v4');' is deprecated as of [email protected]. Please require the top-level module when using the Node.js CommonJS module or use ECMAScript Modules when bundling for the browser. See https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid#deep-requires-now-deprecated for more information. And when I switch to the recommended import syntax I get a different error.Since it's included in the DataTypes package, would make sense to use what is already available as Matt suggested. You can use it in this way:
{ ..., type: DataTypes.UUID, defaultValue: DataTypes.UUIDV4, ... } 
npm install uuid
import it on your seeder file
const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid'); return queryInterface.bulkInsert('companies', [{ id: uuidv4(), name: 'Testing', updated_at: new Date(), created_at: new Date() }]); 
