Generate UUID values by default for each row on column of UUID type in H2 Database Engine

Question

In the H2 database, on a table with a column of UUID data type, how do we specify that we want H2 to generate a UUID value by default when an INSERT omits that field?

I know how to generate a UUID. I have read the Question, How to insert a specific UUID in h2 database?.

My question is about how to ask H2 to generate the UUID value on my behalf.

Answer 1

You can use built-in function RANDOM_UUID():

create table test(id int primary key, data uuid default random_uuid());
insert into test(id) values(1);
select * from test;

Note that using the UUID (or any other randomly generated data) as the primary key will result in performance problems if there are more than a few million rows (with relational databases in general, not just with H2).

Answer 2

googling for hours I've created a simple solution, according to @Thomas Mueller

with hibernate and jpa:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(generator = "UUID")
@GenericGenerator(
        name = "UUID",
        strategy = "org.hibernate.id.UUIDGenerator"
)
@Column(name = "ID", updatable = false, nullable = false)
@ColumnDefault("random_uuid()")
@Type(type = "uuid-char")
@Getter
@Setter
private UUID id;

So @Type(type = "uuid-char") makes your field a VARCHAR(255) if you need it (it's binary by default)

And @ColumnDefault("random_uuid()") puts the dedault value for generated table DDL

Hope this helps