Cannot use UUID in APIs generated by Spring Data Rest

Question

I have below entity configuration

@Entity
@RestResource
public class Employee  {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    @Type(type = "pg-uuid")
    private UUID id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "employee")
    @RestResource(path = "projects", rel = "projects")
    private List<EmployeeToProject> projects;
}

@Entity
@RestResource
public class Project {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "project", cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
    @RestResource(path = "employees", rel = "employees")
    private List<EmployeeToProject> employees;
}

@Entity
@RestResource
public class EmployeeToProject {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @ManyToOne
    @RestResource(path = "employee", rel = "employee")
    private Employee employee;

    @ManyToOne
    @RestResource(path = "project", rel = "project")
    private Project project;
}

And repository for EmployeeToProject with @RepositoryRestResource to make crud apis available

@RepositoryRestResource
@CrossOrigin("*")
public interface EmployeeToProjectRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<EmployeeToProjectRepository, Long> {
    
}

I am trying to create a record in employee_to_project by using the data rest api provided using the paths

this is giving me a numberformatexception as it is expecting a number for employee ID but I have configured employeed ID as UUID

"message": "JSON parse error: Failed to convert from type [java.lang.String] to type [java.lang.Long] for value 'e21d6b85-371f-485d-ba5b-b807e2c79093'; nested exception is java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: \"e21d6b85-371f-485d-ba5b-b807e2c79093\"; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Failed to convert from type [java.lang.String] to type [java.lang.Long] for value 'e21d6b85-371f-485d-ba5b-b807e2c79093'; nested exception is java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: \"e21d6b85-371f-485d-ba5b-b807e2c79093\"

This api works if I change Emplyee ID from UUID to Long.

How I still can use UUID and utilize the data rest apis provided by Spring