How to seed uuidv4 with sequelize

Question

I am trying to seed a uuid using sequilize generateUUID but i get this error Seed file failed with error: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function TypeError: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function

how do i seed a UUID?

    return queryInterface.bulkInsert('companies', [{
        id: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID(),
        name: 'Testing',
        updated_at: new Date(),
        created_at: new Date()
    }]);

Answer 1

Since it's included in the DataTypes package, would make sense to use what is already available as Matt suggested. You can use it in this way:

{
    ...,
    type: DataTypes.UUID,
    defaultValue: DataTypes.UUIDV4,
    ...
}