'Attempt to convert value to bytes or return value.
:param value: value to attempt to convert to bytes
:returns: tuple containing boolean indicating whether user_id was
stored as bytes and uuid value as bytes or the original value'

@classmethod
def attempt_convert_uuid_hex_to_bytes(cls, value):

    try:
        return (True, cls.convert_uuid_hex_to_bytes(value))
    except ValueError:
        return (False, value)
