feat: return UUID on database creation

superset-frontend/src/views/CRUD/data/database/types.ts

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ export type DatabaseObject = {
   engine?: string;
   extra?: string;
   id?: number;
+  uuid?: null | string;
   name: string; // synonym to database_name
   paramProperties?: Record<string, any>;
   sqlalchemy_uri?: string;

superset/databases/api.py

@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ def post(self) -> FlaskResponse:
             return self.response_400(message=error.messages)
         try:
             new_model = CreateDatabaseCommand(item).run()
+            item["uuid"] = new_model.uuid
             # Return censored version for sqlalchemy URI
             item["sqlalchemy_uri"] = new_model.sqlalchemy_uri
             item["expose_in_sqllab"] = new_model.expose_in_sqllab

superset/databases/schemas.py

@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ class Meta:  # pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
     is_managed_externally = fields.Boolean(allow_none=True, default=False)
     external_url = fields.String(allow_none=True)
     ssh_tunnel = fields.Nested(DatabaseSSHTunnel, allow_none=True)
+    uuid = fields.String(required=False)
 
 
 class DatabaseTestConnectionSchema(Schema, DatabaseParametersSchemaMixin):

tests/unit_tests/databases/api_test.py

@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ def test_post_with_uuid(
     )
     assert response.status_code == 201
 
+    # check that response includes UUID
+    payload = response.json
+    assert payload["result"]["uuid"] == "7c1b7880-a59d-47cd-8bf1-f1eb8d2863cb"
+
     database = session.query(Database).one()
     assert database.uuid == UUID("7c1b7880-a59d-47cd-8bf1-f1eb8d2863cb")