I am new in flask and alchemy and decided to learn by working on a large project using flask. When I started creating relationships between classes. Each of the classes is in separate file and folder. the Logic I want to implement is each controlaccount can have only one project assigned to it while a project can be assigned to multiple controlaccounts i.e. one-to-mant relationship.
I keep getting the following error message
sqlalchemy.exc.InternalError: (pymysql.err.InternalError) (1054, "Unknown column 'project_id' in 'field list'") [SQL: 'INSERT INTO controlaccounts (code, name, budget, PMB_start
, PMB_finish
, PMU_start
, PMU_finish
, parent_id, project_id) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)'] [parameters: ('Root', 'Root', 1.0, datetime.date(2017, 12, 1), datetime.date(2017, 12, 31), datetime.date(2018, 12, 1), datetime.date(2019, 2, 27), 1, 1)]
My code in controlaccounts/models.py
class ControlAccount(db.Model):
__tablename__='controlaccounts'
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key =True)
code = db.Column(db.String(80))
name = db.Column(db.String(80))
budget = db.Column(db.Float)
PMB_start = db.Column(db.Date)
PMB_finish = db.Column(db.Date)
PMU_start = db.Column(db.Date)
PMU_finish = db.Column(db.Date)
parent_id = db.Column(db.Integer)
project_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('projects.id'))
def __init__(self, code, name, budget, PMB_start, PMB_finish, PMU_start, PMU_finish, parent_id, project):
self.code = code
self.name = name
self.parent_id = parent_id
#self.accounttype_id = accounttype.id
self.budget = budget
self.PMB_start = PMB_start
self.PMB_finish = PMB_finish
self.PMU_start = PMU_start
self.PMU_finish = PMU_finish
self.project_id = project.id
def __repr__(self):
return self.name
the project/models file code is
class Project(db.Model):
__tablename__ ="projects"
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
code = db.Column(db.String(80))
name = db.Column(db.String(80))
owner = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('users.id'))
description = db.Column(db.Text)
start = db.Column(db.DateTime)
finish = db.Column(db.DateTime)
status = db.Column(db.Boolean)
project = db.relationship('ControlAccount', backref='projects', lazy='dynamic',primaryjoin="Project.id == ControlAccount.project_id")
def __init__(self, code, name, description, owner, start, finish, status):
self.code = code
self.name = name
self.owner = owner
self.description = description
self.start = start
self.finish = finish
self.status = status
The form for controlaccount code is
class ControlAccountForm(Form):
def get_projects():
return Project.query.all()
code = StringField('Code', [validators.Required()])
name = StringField('Type Name', [validators.Required()])
#accounttype = QuerySelectField('Account Type', query_factory= get_account_types)
#curve_id = QuerySelectField('Spread Profile', query_factory= get_spread_profile)
budget = FloatField('Budget', [validators.Required()])
PMB_start = DateField('Planned Start', [validators.Required()])
PMB_finish = DateField('Planned Finish', [validators.Required()])
PMU_start = DateField('Anticipated Start')
PMU_finish = DateField('Anticipated Finish')
#parent_id = QuerySelectField('Parent Accounts', query_factory= get_control_accounts)
parent_id = IntegerField('Parent ID')
project_id = QuerySelectField('Project', query_factory= get_projects)
and last is the views code
@app.route('/newcontrolaccount', methods=['POST', 'GET'])
def newcontrolaccount():
form = ControlAccountForm()
if request.method == "POST" and form.validate():
#accounttype = form.accounttype.data
controlaccount = ControlAccount (code= form.code.data,
name= form.name.data,
#accounttype = form.accounttype.data,
budget = form.budget.data,
PMB_start = form.PMB_start.data,
PMB_finish = form.PMB_finish.data,
PMU_start = form.PMU_start.data,
PMU_finish = form.PMU_finish.data,
parent_id = form.parent_id.data,
#curve_id = form.curve_id.data,
project = form.project_id.data
)
db.session.add(controlaccount)
db.session.commit()
return redirect(url_for('ca_added'))
return render_template('controlaccounts/newaccount.html', form=form, action='new')
As the error says the project_id
field is missing in your database. Have a look with a database viewer if it has been created. Otherwise delete the database and recreate it with db.create_all()
.
Also the project
field in Project
class should be removed. This doesn't make sense. If you want to get a backref to the related control accounts just add a backref in your ControlAccount class. See http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/basic_relationships.html#one-to-one for details.
class ControlAccount(db.Model):
__tablename__='controlaccounts'
# ...
project_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('projects.id'))
project = relationship("Project", backref="control_account")