feat: allow setting db UUID (#20412)

* WIP

* feat: allow passing UUID when creating a DB

* Test

* Fix field

tests/unit_tests/databases/api_test.py

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+# pylint: disable=unused-argument, import-outside-toplevel
+
+from typing import Any
+from uuid import UUID
+
+from pytest_mock import MockFixture
+from sqlalchemy.orm.session import Session
+
+
+def test_post_with_uuid(
+    mocker: MockFixture,
+    app_context: None,
+    session: Session,
+    client: Any,
+    full_api_access: None,
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Test that we can set the database UUID when creating it.
+    """
+    from superset.models.core import Database
+
+    # create table for databases
+    Database.metadata.create_all(session.get_bind())  # pylint: disable=no-member
+
+    response = client.post(
+        "/api/v1/database/",
+        json={
+            "database_name": "my_db",
+            "sqlalchemy_uri": "sqlite://",
+            "uuid": "7c1b7880-a59d-47cd-8bf1-f1eb8d2863cb",
+        },
+    )
+    assert response.status_code == 201
+
+    database = session.query(Database).one()
+    assert database.uuid == UUID("7c1b7880-a59d-47cd-8bf1-f1eb8d2863cb")