Error in sequelize.import: defineCall is not a function

What you are doing?

I just had this line in my bin/www require('../models') this load the index.js (seen below). The it generated an error.

File structure in the models folder: models |- index.js |- user.js

index.js:

'use strict';

var fs        = require('fs');
var path      = require('path');
var Sequelize = require('sequelize');
var basename  = path.basename(module.filename);
var env       = process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development';
var config    = require('../config/config.json')[env];
var db        = {};

if (config.use_env_variable) {
  var sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env[config.use_env_variable]);
} else {
    var sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env.MYSQL_DATABASE , process.env.MYSQL_USER, process.env.MYSQL_PASSWORD, {
        host: process.env.MYSQL_HOST || 'localhost',
        dialect: 'mysql',

        pool: {
            max: 5,
            min: 0,
            idle: 10000
        }
    });
}

fs
  .readdirSync(__dirname)
  .filter(function(file) {
    return (file.indexOf('.') !== 0) && (file !== basename) && (file.slice(-3) === '.js');
  })
  .forEach(function(file) {
    var model = sequelize.import(path.join(__dirname, file));
    db[model.name] = model;
  });

Object.keys(db).forEach(function(modelName) {
  if (db[modelName].associate) {
    db[modelName].associate(db);
  }
});

db.sequelize = sequelize;
db.Sequelize = Sequelize;

module.exports = db;

user.js:

module.export = function(sequelize, DataTypes)
{
    return sequelize.define('users', {
        username: {type: DataTypes.STRING, primaryKey: true},
        password: DataTypes.STRING,
        stamm: DataTypes.STRING,
        lv: DataTypes.String,
        countSipplinge: DataTypes.INT,
        avgAge: DataTypes.INT,
        sifüName: DataTypes.STRING,
        sifüEMail: DataTypes.STRING,
        sifüAdresse: DataTypes.STRING,
        sifüTel: DataTypes.STRING,
        email: DataTypes.STRING,
        admin: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
        sippe: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
        inactive: DataTypes.BOOLEAN
        })
    };

What do you expect to happen?

I expected to load the File and Model user.js as seen below:

What is actually happening?

But just run into an error:

C:\Users\Jan\WebstormProjects\BdPWebanwendung\node_modules\sequelize\lib\sequelize.js:691
    this.importCache[path] = defineCall(this, DataTypes);
                             ^

TypeError: defineCall is not a function
    at Sequelize.import (C:\Users\Jan\WebstormProjects\BdPWebanwendung\node_modules\sequelize\lib\sequelize.js:691:30)
    at C:\Users\Jan\WebstormProjects\BdPWebanwendung\models\index.js:32:33
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Jan\WebstormProjects\BdPWebanwendung\models\index.js:31:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Jan\WebstormProjects\BdPWebanwendung\config\passport.js:5:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

I checked with an debugger where it actually happens. The error is generated by the following line:

if (!this.importCache[path]) {
    var defineCall = (arguments.length > 1 ? arguments[1] : require(path));
    if (typeof defineCall === 'object') {
      // Babel/ES6 module compatability
      defineCall = defineCall.default;
    }
    this.importCache[path] = defineCall(this, DataTypes);
  }

defineCall is undefined and it was set by the line defineCall = defineCall.default;. In this line is defineCall the object of require('path/to/user.js') but defineCall.default is undefined.

Dialect: mysql Database version: 5.7.12 Sequelize version: 3.27.0

[felixfbecker]

That means you have tried to import a module that did not do a module.exports = function() {

[aprilmintacpineda]

I experienced this issue, the reason was because I added a file on my models directory that is not a model, just some code that’s meant to do some stuff. I suppose we can only add model files on the models directory, as index.js checks every file in the whole directory.

Can we edit the codes in the index.js to look for filename.model.js instead of every file or maybe make it configurable with model as the default?