{"id":1001,"date":"2013-02-18T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ridgesolutions.ie\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T19:59:08","slug":"web2py-and-python-change-to-model-definition-may-break-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ridgesolutions.ie\/index.php\/2013\/02\/18\/web2py-and-python-change-to-model-definition-may-break-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Web2py and python – Change to model definition may break web site"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Web2py if you want to change a model’s definition, you can first of all change the model’s software definition via its python code and then, (depending on your migration settings), the next time you launch your web app, web2py will attempt to alter your database structure to match your updated model.<\/p>\n

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If this works, then it works and your database will reflect your new model, however sometimes web2py can’t make the necessary changes and your app may not subsequently load any more at all. If this happens then I have found the best way to fix the app is to delete all of the files in the app’s database directory – the next time you launch your app web2py will recreate your DB from scratch and it should launch again.<\/p>\n

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Now this is fine assuming that your database didn’t have loads of important data in it that you didn’t want to loose. So, to get around this problem, before trying to change a model’s definition I export all of the data in the database to a file (using a tool like this<\/a>) so that if the problem happens and I have to get web2py to recreate the database ‘in its own image’ I can later reimport the previously saved data…<\/p>\n

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In Web2py if you want to change a model’s definition, you can first of all change the model’s software definition via its python code and then, (depending on your migration settings), the next time you launch your web app, web2py will attempt to alter your database structure to match your updated model.   If this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[149,253,252,236],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-python","tag-sqllite","tag-web-app","tag-web2py"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t