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UUID instead of an auto-increment integer for ID with Active Record

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Active Record does not call the getter method if attributes contain the property. It should not be this way, so I return the default component behavior and make ID returned the right way.
From the other hand, the first valiator calls `$model->id` triggering the getter before the UUID is saved to the private property so I need to serve the value from user input.

It is strange to mutate data in a validator, but I found this is the only solutionway. I belive I shouldn't use `beforeSave()` callback to set the binary value for generating SQL, and return the text value back in `afterSave()`, - supporting this code later will be a hellwould be a classic hell like `#define true false;`.

So, now you can go the generic MySQL way

Step 4. add a virtual column
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Created on: Nov 25, 2019
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