I have a website running with a mysql database using the sql-alchemy package that has suddenly broken. I have done some research and found that the expected issue is that the newest sql-alchemy update is handing flask-admin one more value than expected from
"cls, key = identity_key(instance=obj)"
Source
The suggested fix is to edit the files to accept a third item but I am unable to do this with the permissions I have on my environment.
Another answer links to a repo on github but I cannot figure out how that helps me. I'm very new to this and I don't know if I am supposed to clone the repo or how exactly to do that if I am.
Any help is appreciated!
Here is the error dump
2018-01-22 20:01:59,593: [2018-01-22 20:01:59,592] ERROR in app: Exception on /reservation/add [GET]
2018-01-22 20:01:59,594: Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-01-22 20:01:59,594:
File "fakepath/flask/app.py", line 1982, in wsgi_app
2018-01-22 20:01:59,594: response = self.full_dispatch_request()2018-01-22 20:01:59,594: File "fakepath/flask/app.py", line 1614, in full_dispatch_request
2018-01-22 20:01:59,594: rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: File "fakepath/flask/app.py", line 1517, in handle_user_exception2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: File "fakepath/flask/_compat.py", line 33, in reraise
2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: raise value2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: File "fakepath/flask/app.py", line 1612, in full_dispatch_request
2018-01-22 20:01:59,595: rv = self.dispatch_request()
2018-01-22 20:01:59,596: File "fakepath/flask/app.py", line 1598, in dispatch_request2018-01-22 20:01:59,596: return self.view_functionsrule.endpoint
2018-01-22 20:01:59,596: File "fakepath/flask_login/utils.py", line 261, in decorated_view
2018-01-22 20:01:59,596: return func(*args, **kwargs)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: File "/home/apoalphagammawebmaster/inventory/app/auth/views.py", line 248, in add_reservation
2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: form=form, title='Add Reservation')
2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: File "fakepath/flask/templating.py", line 134, in render_template2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: context, ctx.app)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: File "fakepath/flask/templating.py", line 116, in _render
2018-01-22 20:01:59,597: rv = template.render(context)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,598: File "fakepath/jinja2/asyncsupport.py", line 76, in render
2018-01-22 20:01:59,598: return original_render(self, *args, **kwargs)2018-01-22 20:01:59,598: File "fakepath/jinja2/environment.py", line 1008, in render
2018-01-22 20:01:59,598: return self.environment.handle_exception(exc_info, True)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,598: File "fakepath/jinja2/environment.py", line 780, in handle_exception
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599: reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599: File "fakepath/jinja2/_compat.py", line 37, in reraise
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599: raise value.with_traceback(tb)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599: File "/home/apoalphagammawebmaster/inventory/app/templates/auth/reservations/reservation.html", line 2, in top-level template code
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599:
{% extends "base.html" %}
2018-01-22 20:01:59,599: File "/home/apoalphagammawebmaster/inventory/app/templates/base.html", line 48, in top-level template code
2018-01-22 20:01:59,600: {% block body %}
2018-01-22 20:01:59,600: File "/home/apoalphagammawebmaster/inventory/app/templates/auth/reservations/reservation.html", line 27, in block "body"
2018-01-22 20:01:59,600: {{ wtf.quick_form(form) }}
2018-01-22 20:01:59,600: File "fakepath/jinja2/runtime.py", line 579, in _invoke
2018-01-22 20:01:59,600: rv = self._func(*arguments)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: File "fakepath/flask_bootstrap/templates/bootstrap/wtf.html", line 205, in template
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: {{ form_field(field,2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: File "fakepath/jinja2/runtime.py", line 579, in _invoke
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: rv = self._func(*arguments)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: File "fakepath/flask_bootstrap/templates/bootstrap/wtf.html", line 123, in template
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601:
{{field(class="form-control", **kwargs)|safe}}
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: File "fakepath/wtforms/fields/core.py", line 153, in call
2018-01-22 20:01:59,601: return self.meta.render_field(self, kwargs)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602:
File "fakepath/wtforms/meta.py", line 56, in render_field2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: return field.widget(field, **render_kw)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: File "fakepath/wtforms/widgets/core.py", line 287, in call2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: for val, label, selected in field.iter_choices():
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: File "fakepath/wtforms/ext/sqlalchemy/fields.py", line 107, in iter_choices
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: for pk, obj in self._get_object_list():
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: File "fakepath/wtforms/ext/sqlalchemy/fields.py", line 100, in _get_object_list
2018-01-22 20:01:59,602: self._object_list = list((text_type(get_pk(obj)), obj) for obj in query)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,603: File "fakepath/wtforms/ext/sqlalchemy/fields.py", line 100, in
2018-01-22 20:01:59,603: self._object_list = list((text_type(get_pk(obj)), obj) for obj in query)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,603: File "fakepath/wtforms/ext/sqlalchemy/fields.py", line 189, in get_pk_from_identity
2018-01-22 20:01:59,603: cls, key = identity_key(instance=obj)
2018-01-22 20:01:59,603: ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)
The problem is covered on the github issues thread - https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin/issues/1588
Basically, the flask-admin pip package is out of date, in regards the latest sqlalchemy pip package. In that specific area,
cls, key = identity_key(instance=obj)
sqlalchemy is now returning 3 objects, but flask-admin is only expecting 2, hence the error.
The real solution for this is to wait until a new flask-admin version is uploaded to pip, until then, you've a few options.
fields.py filesqlalchemy to version 1.2.0b3. You can do this in your requirements.txt file, or manually with a pip upgrade install, pip install --upgrade sqlalchemy==1.2.0b3flask-admin's master branch in their github repository, install that version of flask-admin with the pip location of git+https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin. Again, you do this in your requirements.txt file, or with a pip upgrade install, pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin.My personal preference, and what I've done, is option 3. If you look through the code itself, it's a line the maintainers want to remove, anyway, and how they're dealing with it is better, and in general with these things, I prefer to go forward (latest version of flask-admin) rather than holding things back (rollback sqlalchemy to a previous version), and certainly better than manually editing the raw code.