NOT NULL constraint failed but field is not null

Question

I am trying to add a new item using my web form.

But I get this error. The email is not null though which I verified from a print statement.

at this line

File "/Users/j/udacity/item_catalog/item-catalog-190/application.py", line 131, in newItem
    session.commit()


IntegrityError: (sqlite3.IntegrityError) NOT NULL constraint failed: category.email [SQL: u'INSERT INTO category (name, email) VALUES (?, ?)'] [parameters: (u'Pilates', None)]


@app.route('/catalog/new', methods=['GET','POST'])
def newItem():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        placeholder=request.form['category']
        category = Category(name=placeholder)
        print "**********", login_session['email']
        email = login_session['email']
        newThing = Item(name=request.form['name'], description=request.form['description'], price=request.form['price'],category=category, email=email)
        session.add(newThing)
        session.commit()
        return redirect('/catalog')
    else:
        return render_template('newitem.html')

These are my two tables.

class Item(Base):
__tablename__ = 'item'

name = Column(String(80), nullable=False)
id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
description = Column(String(250))
price = Column(String(8))
category_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey('category.id'))
email = Column(String(250),nullable=False)
category = relationship(Category)


class Category(Base):
__tablename__ = 'category'

id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
name = Column(String(250), nullable=False)
email = Column(String(250), nullable=False)

Answer 1

Your category table requires the email field to be NOT NULL, and when you create a new category:

category = Category(name=placeholder)

The default value of the email field is NULL.

This is the query for the INSERT:

SQL: u'INSERT INTO category (name, email) VALUES (?, ?)'] [parameters: (u'Pilates', None)

As you can see, the second paramenter (which is the email) is None (which translates to null in SQL.

You might wanna change your code to:

if request.method == 'POST':
    placeholder=request.form['category']
    email = login_session['email'] # moved the email here
    print "**********", login_session['email']
    category = Category(name=placeholder, email=email) # here you have the email variable so you can use it