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Christopher Stuart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,771 PointsError When Creating Model in Sequelize
When I go to create the model as Andrew does in the video--I'm getting this error and have no idea what the issue might be. Anyone ever seen this problem?
C:\Users\crstu\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sequelizecli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:1079
else throw err ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'toUpperCase' of undefined at eval (lodash.templateSources[0]:18:33) at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
3 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,416 PointsYou have an extra space between 'id:' and 'integer' at the end unlike all the others. This would cause any terminal/shell to split them as separate arguments.
Christopher Stuart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,771 Pointshere it is
C:\Users\chr\Desktop\JS\library-manager-v1>sequelize model:generate --na
me Patrons --attributes first_name:string, last_name:string, address:string, ema
il:string, library_id:string, zip_code:integer, id: integer
Sequelize CLI [Node: 8.8.1, CLI: 3.1.0, ORM: 4.23.1]
WARNING: This version of Sequelize CLI is not fully compatible with Sequelize v4
. https://github.com/sequelize/cli#sequelize-support
C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sequelize-cli\node_modules
\yargs\yargs.js:1079
else throw err
^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'toUpperCase' of undefined
at eval (lodash.templateSources[0]:18:33)
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at eval (lodash.templateSources[0]:14:26)
at Object.render (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\sequ
elize-cli\lib\helpers\template-helper.js:26:54)
at Object.generateFileContent (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node
_modules\sequelize-cli\lib\helpers\model-helper.js:31:37)
at Object.generateFile (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_module
s\sequelize-cli\lib\helpers\model-helper.js:41:49)
at Object.exports.handler (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_mod
ules\sequelize-cli\lib\commands\model_generate.js:32:27)
at Object.self.runCommand (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_mod
ules\sequelize-cli\node_modules\yargs\lib\command.js:233:22)
at Object.Yargs.self._parseArgs (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\no
de_modules\sequelize-cli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:990:30)
at Object.get [as argv] (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul
es\sequelize-cli\node_modules\yargs\yargs.js:927:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\chr\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
\sequelize-cli\lib\sequelize:84:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:612:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:623:10)
at Module.load (module.js:531:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:494:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:486:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:653:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:608:3
C:\Users\chr\Desktop\JS\library-manager-v1>
Christopher Stuart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,771 Pointsthank you seth--didn't realize sequelize was so finnicky---this was a good learning lesson
Seth Kroger
56,416 PointsSeth Kroger
56,416 PointsWhat's the rest of the stack trace? It's likely you passed in a bad value to sequalize somewhere that didn't cause an error until it was deep inside the sequalize's code.