id as UUID is causing errors

[wdifruscio]

I do not use integer pks - its a very old project with uuid4s

I get a to_dict() error when defaulting to the id.

custom_objectID = 'field' would work, if I could just return str(instance.id) but I can't find a way to do this. Maybe I missed something.

For now, I am either going to have to create a custom_id property on each model..

My Error

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/algoliasearch/http/serializer.py", line 64, in body_serializer
    obj_dict = obj.to_dict()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'UUID' object has no attribute 'to_dict'

Model

import uuid

class UUIDModel(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, editable=False, default=uuid.uuid4)

    class Meta:
        abstract = True

[SandroFernandes]

Create a property in the model:

 @property
 def custom_objectID(self):
      """Return the pk as string to custom objectID for Algolia."""
      return str(self.pk)

In the index class add:

class PostIndex(AlgoliaIndex):
    custom_objectID = 'custom_objectID'
    ....

This solves the to_dict() error