null value violates not-null constraint on id, postgres

hi there.

attempting to create() a new instance of my menu object, as described here:

module.exports = function(sequelize, DataTypes) {
  return sequelize.define('menu', {
    title: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    closed_view_title: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    closed_view_photo_url: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    closed_view_message: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    soldout_view_title: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    soldout_view_photo_url: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    soldout_view_message: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    max_items_per_order: {
      type: DataTypes.INTEGER,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    starts_at: {
      type: DataTypes.DATE,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    ends_at: {
      type: DataTypes.DATE,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    service_boundary_url: {
      type: DataTypes.STRING,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    service_boundary_updated: {
      type: DataTypes.DATE,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    created_at: {
      type: DataTypes.DATE,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    updated_at: {
      type: DataTypes.DATE,
      allowNull: false,
    },
    active: {
      type: DataTypes.BOOLEAN,
      allowNull: false,
      defaultValue: false
    }
  });
};

note: i have defined an id field previously, and removed it in an attempt to resolve this issue. sync() is being called on server start.

However, calling create() is yielding this error:

{"name":"SequelizeDatabaseError","message":"null value in column \"id\" violates not-null constraint"

Any ideas why sequelize is expecting me to add my own ID value? This seems to be an issue that has floated up several times, but none of the proposed solutions have been working (autoIncrement:true, removing the ID field entirely)

[ianseyer]

Resolved.

My issue was having created the tables initially with ID having been set to Integer (this is because of using sequelize-auto). Therefore, any future changes I made to the table were not occuring because sync() does not touch tables if they already exist.

Therefore, I had to call sync({force: true}) to get it to rewrite my table schema.

[ianseyer]

Sorry; it isn’t too large a project, though. Only a few routes defined and next to zero assets to pull down.

Getting it going should just be npm install; node app.js

Then navigate to /menus/create and fill in some garbage data.

The relevant files are /controllers/menus.js, /views/create.jade, /models/menu.js.