Commit 79f4f907 authored by Serge S. Koval's avatar Serge S. Koval

Wording

parent fc910bb9
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Multiple Primary Keys
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Models with multiple primary keys have limited support, as a few pitfalls are waiting for you.
With using multiple primary keys, weak entities can be used with Flask-Admin.
Flask-Admin has limited support for models with multiple primary keys. It only covers specific case when
all but one primary keys are foreign keys to another model. For example, model inheritance following
this convention.
Lets Model a car with it's tyres::
Lets Model a car with its tyres::
class Car(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'cars'
......@@ -129,19 +130,17 @@ Lets Model a car with it's tyres::
A specific tyre is identified by using the two primary key columns of the ``Tyre`` class, of which the ``car_id`` key
is itself a foreign key to the class ``Car``.
To be able to CRUD the ``Tyre`` class, two steps are necessary, when definig the AdminView::
To be able to CRUD the ``Tyre`` class, you need to enumerate columns when defining the AdminView::
class TyreAdmin(sqla.ModelView):
form_columns = ['car', 'tyre_id', 'desc']
The ``form_columns`` needs to be explizit, as per default only one primary key is displayed. When, like in this
example, one part of the key is a foreign key, do not include the foreign-key-columns here, but the
corresponding relationship.
The ``form_columns`` needs to be explicit, as per default only one primary key is displayed.
When having multiple primary keys, **no** validation for uniqueness *prior* to saving of the object will be done. Saving
a model that violates a unique-constraint leads to an Sqlalchemy-Integrity-Error. In this case, ``Flask-Admin`` displays
a proper error message and you can change the data in the form. When the application has been started with ``debug=True``
the ``werkzeug`` debugger catches the exception and displays the stacktrace.
the ``werkzeug`` debugger will catch the exception and will display the stacktrace.
A standalone script with the Examples from above can be found in the examples directory.
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