Eloquent Laravel Model that autogenerated uuid and save using binary format

UUIDModel.php

<?php

use Rhumsaa\Uuid\Uuid;

class UUIDModel extends Eloquent {

  public $incrementing = false;
  protected $softDelete = true;
  
  public function __construct(array $attributes = array()) {
    parent::__construct($attributes);

    $this->setEventDispatcher(Capsule::getEventDispatcher());
  }

  protected static function boot() {
    parent::boot();

    static::creating(function($model) {
      $model->{$model->getKeyName()} = (binary) $model->generateID();
    });
  }

  public function generateID() {
    return hex2bin(str_replace('-','',Uuid::uuid4()));
  }

  public function getID() {
    return bin2hex($this->getAttribute($this->primaryKey));
  }
}

@fwolf thanks for advice. sorry, I don't get notification for your comment.
It's just a small script when I learn laravel for first time, I will update it later.