Thanks!
It works now.
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 2:13:48 AM UTC-10, Niphlod wrote:
>
> did you add a format= attribute for the referenced table ?
>
>
>
> On Saturday, October 12, 2013 4:28:15 AM UTC+2, James Thompson wrote:
>>
>> I tried it without the dotted notation, it gets rid of the error message,
>> but
>> in the admin interface it shows raw integer values for the foreign key
>> fields rather than the value from the referenced table.
>> Do I need to add something else?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:02:42 AM UTC-10, Niphlod wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think that you need to use the dotted notation for the
>>> reference. you just have a table whose pk is "model_id" instead of "id".
>>> Try just 'reference car_model'.
>>>
>>> PS: keyed table in web2py are when you need to pass a primarykey=[] to
>>> the table definition.... in your case it's just a matter of column names
>>> more than one of table structure.
>>>
>>> On Friday, October 11, 2013 12:25:33 PM UTC+2, James Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Wondering about support for legacy Mysql tables in web2py. Read the
>>>> book section on legacy databases, but keep getting:
>>>> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'> keyed tables can only reference other
>>>> keyed tables (for now)
>>>> My mysql db and web2py models like something like this:
>>>>
>>>> CREATE TABLE `car_models` (
>>>> `model_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
>>>> `model_name` text NOT NULL,
>>>> PRIMARY KEY (`model_id`)
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> CREATE TABLE `cars` (
>>>> `car_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
>>>> `model_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
>>>> PRIMARY KEY (`car_id`)
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> web2py model:
>>>>
>>>> x_db = DAL('mysql://user:password@db/database')
>>>>
>>>> x_db.define_table('car_models',
>>>> Field('model_id','id'),
>>>> Field('model_name','string'),
>>>> migrate=False
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> x_db.define_table('cars',
>>>> Field('car_id','id'),
>>>> Field('model_id','reference car_models.model_id'),
>>>> Field('note','text'),
>>>> migrate=False
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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