hex2uuid formats UUIDs

[kaapstorm]

This allows UUIDs to be recognized by databases with a UUID data type, like PostgreSQL and SQL Server.

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[snopoke]

This will still save it as a string in the DB. Is that OK or are you wanting to change the DB column type as well?

[kaapstorm]

Yes, setting the value to a string is fine. Postgres and SQL Server accept string UUIDs for their UUID column types.

It seemed to me that for DET to set/change the column type, I'd need to create a SQLAlchemy UUID data type. For the use case I'm looking at, the column type has been set manually, so I'd like to use --strict-types so that DET does not try to change the column type back to TEXT.

Do you think the name "hex2uuid" is confusing, and people will expect it to set/change the column type to UUID? Or is it OK for people to set the column type manually and use the --strict-types argument? How do we generally feel about using --strict-types?

[snopoke]

Do you think the name "hex2uuid" is confusing, and people will expect it to set/change the column type to UUID?

I do think the name doesn't match the other XtoY functions. I think just renaming to format-uuid would be fine.