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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