Why does Eloquent (in Laravel) cast my varchar uuid primary key to an integer resulting in errors?

In order for this to work I had to manually override the casting type of the primary key in my model.

protected $casts = [
  'id' => 'string'
];

For those coming here later. You can override the $keyType variable in your model with the string type:

protected $keyType = 'string';

I looked into the \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model class and found that the most effective way is to set $incrementing = false in your Model.

In my tests both creating and retrieving the model worked as intended.

This is the snipped with the PHP docs comments.

    /**
     * Indicates if the IDs are auto-incrementing.
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    public $incrementing = false;

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