SQLAlchemy: How to make an integer column auto_increment (and unique) without making it a primary key?
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You can add an AUTO_INCREMENT
not primary key but you can't have two AUTO_INCREMENT
fields
If you don't have AUTO_INCREMENT
you can add an AUTO_INCREMENT
and UNIQUE
whith something like this:
ALTER TABLE `items` ADD `AutoInc` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, ADD UNIQUE (`AutoInc`)
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ajay over 3 years
I am using Flask extension for SQLAlchemy to define my database model. I want an id column to be int type and with auto_increment property but without making it a primary key. How do I achieve it?
I tried this:
from flask import Flask, jsonify from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy app = Flask(__name__) app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql://root:ajay@localhost/pydb' app.config['SQLALCHEMY_ECHO'] = True db = SQLAlchemy(app) class Scenario(db.Model): scid = db.Column(db.Integer, nullable=False, unique=True, autoincrement=True) scenario_name = db.Column(db.String(100), primary_key=True) scenario_description = db.Column(db.String(200), nullable=False) image_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('images.id', onupdate='CASCADE', ondelete='CASCADE')) def __init__(self, scenario_name, scenario_description, image_id=None): self.scenario_name = scenario_name self.scenario_description = scenario_description self.image_id = image_id def __repr__(self): return '<Scenario %r, %r, %r>' % (self.scenario_name, self.scenario_description, self.image_id)
but this doesn't set the scid column as auto_increment.