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I'm trying to change a foreign key's constraint but I keep getting this error:

sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (OperationalError) (1025, "Error on rename of './tillsammans_dev/profile_accommodation_contact' to './tillsammans_dev/#sql2-4c1-37' (errno: 152)") 'ALTER TABLE profile_accommodation_contact DROP FOREIGN KEY profile_accommodation_contact_ibfk_1' ()

I have been having problem with this before but whenever I got this error I would just wipe the entire database and rebuild it but I thought that I would try to learn how to make a proper migration.

My model before the update:

class ProfileAccommodationContact(CRUDMixin, db.Model):
  __tablename__ = 'profile_accommodation_contact'

  show_contact_info = db.Column(db.Boolean, nullable=True, default=False)
  message = db.Column(db.String(254), nullable=True)
  created = db.Column(db.BigInteger, nullable=False, default=time.time())
  seen = db.Column(db.Boolean, nullable=True, default=False)

  fk_from_user = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'), nullable=True)
  r_from_user = db.relationship('User', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade='all', primaryjoin='User.id==ProfileAccommodationContact.fk_from_user')

  fk_to_user = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.id'), nullable=True)
  r_to_user = db.relationship('User', uselist=False, cascade='all', primaryjoin='User.id==ProfileAccommodationContact.fk_to_user')

  fk_profile_accommodation = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('profile_accommodation.id'), nullable=False)
  r_profile_accommodation = db.relationship('ProfileAccommodation', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade='all')

  fk_contact_type = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('contact_type.id'), nullable=False)
  r_contact_type = db.relationship('ContactType', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade="all")

How I want my model to look like in the database:

class ProfileAccommodationContact(CRUDMixin, db.Model):
  __tablename__ = 'profile_accommodation_contact'

  show_contact_info = db.Column(db.Boolean, nullable=True, default=False)
  message = db.Column(db.String(254), nullable=True)
  created = db.Column(db.BigInteger, nullable=False, default=time.time())
  seen = db.Column(db.Boolean, nullable=True, default=False)

  fk_from_user = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.uid'), nullable=True)
  r_from_user = db.relationship('User', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade='all', primaryjoin='User.uid==ProfileAccommodationContact.fk_from_user')

  fk_to_user = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.uid'), nullable=True)
  r_to_user = db.relationship('User', uselist=False, cascade='all', primaryjoin='User.uid==ProfileAccommodationContact.fk_to_user')

  fk_profile_accommodation = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('profile_accommodation.id'), nullable=False)
  r_profile_accommodation = db.relationship('ProfileAccommodation', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade='all')

  fk_contact_type = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('contact_type.id'), nullable=False)
  r_contact_type = db.relationship('ContactType', backref='ProfileAccommodationContact', uselist=False, cascade="all")

The difference is on:

  • fk_from_user
  • r_from_user
  • fk_to_user
  • r_to_user

Edit: So my question is how I should edit the migration file so that I can migrate this change to the model? The file that flask-migration creates looks like this (it fails on the first op.drop_constraint):

def upgrade():
  ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
  op.drop_constraint(u'profile_accommodation_contact_ibfk_1', 'profile_accommodation_contact', type_='foreignkey')
  op.drop_constraint(u'profile_accommodation_contact_ibfk_2', 'profile_accommodation_contact', type_='foreignkey')
  op.create_foreign_key(None, 'profile_accommodation_contact', 'user', ['fk_to_user'], ['uid'])
  op.create_foreign_key(None, 'profile_accommodation_contact', 'user', ['fk_from_user'], ['uid'])
  ### end Alembic commands ###

def downgrade():
  ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
  op.drop_constraint(None, 'profile_accommodation_contact', type_='foreignkey')
  op.drop_constraint(None, 'profile_accommodation_contact', type_='foreignkey')
  ### end Alembic commands ###
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