Ray, If I understand, (It always seems that I don’t understand the question), you want to alter a table through migrations. I have always done it like this.
ERXMigrationTable theTable = database.existingTableNamed(“theTableIWantToAlter"); theTable.existingColumnNamed(“theColumnName").setAllowsNull(false); Is this what you are looking for? Ted On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Ray Kiddy <r...@ganymede.org> wrote: > > I should have been using migrations for a long time, but I have not. I > have just never had the time to add another thing that might break. But > you know. But I thought I knew the theory of it. > > So, the only place I am seeing basic documentation on the wocommunity > site is in the page on creating an ERRest application. Is this right? > Did I miss something? I know there have been WOWODC presentations, but > that is not completely a replacement for a simple how-to document. > > But starting out, migrations seemed pretty easy to use. Ok, setting the > encoding of the tables to latin1 instead of utf-8 was not amazingly > helpful, but I can deal. > > But then I tried my first table change, as opposed to a create. > > alter table foo_table null column1 column2 varchar(10); > > Hm. Not helpful. I guess falling back to reasonable defaults is not > what happens here. I tried adding things to my classpath, such as the > Wonder MySQL plugin framework. No difference. > > So, I now use my migration java sources as a convenient place for the > comments which give me the SQL I have to execute manually to make this > work. This is probably not the best use of this feature, though. > > Any obvious things I am missing before I try to debug this and, > perhaps, put some basic documentation on the site? > > thanx - ray > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/tedpet5%40yahoo.com > > This email sent to tedp...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com