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Python A Social Network with Flask Broadcasting Post Model

Alex Eastwood
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Posted by Alex Eastwood
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Alex Eastwood
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No value for argument 'model' in constructor call

class Post(Model):
    timestamp = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
    user = ForeignKeyField(
        rel_model=User,
        related_name='posts'
    )
    content = TextField()

    class Meta:
        database = DATABASE
        order_by = ('-timestamp',)

This code is throwing the above error. Googling it, every post is saying that i'm missing a positional argument in my init function but the class as Kenneth writes it doesnt have one, so I have no idea what's going wrong.

2 Answers

Alex Eastwood
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Alex Eastwood
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Don't know if it's just the video is out of date but the peewee documentation gives the user assignment to be 

user = ForeignKeyField(User, backref='posts')

and that fixed it. Just in case anyone else gets this issue.

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
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I've marked you question as "feedback" so the developers will see it. Thanks!

MengHsin Ou
MengHsin Ou
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MengHsin Ou
MengHsin Ou
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user = ForeignKeyField(
        model={User},  # added
        rel_model=User,  # point to the User model
        related_name='posts'  # who call and name their post
    )

I tried to see the document and added to fix it.