Creating django objects with a random primary key

Question

I\'m working with an API that wants me to generate opaque \"reference IDs\" for transactions with their API, in other words, unique references that users can\'t guess or infer i

Answer 1

You should be able to set the transactionRef column in your database to be unique. That way, the database will not allow transactions to be added with the same transactionRef value. One possibility is to randomly generate UUIDs -- the probability of random UUIDs colliding is extremely small.