Getting Started with Tastypie: no such table: myapp_entry - django

Question

Just like the title of the page says, I'm Getting Started with Tastypie by following the linked tutorial. But when I try to load /api/entry/?format=json, I get HTTP 500 response, with this error message:
no such table: myapp_entry
When I look in sqlite3, indeed, there's no such table.
Here's how I followed the tutorial:
$ django-admin startproject mysite
$ cd mysite
$ django-admin startapp myapp
I created/edited myapp/models.py, myapp/api.py and mysite/urls.py as specified in the tutorial, and added 'tastypie' to my INSTALLED_APPS in mysite/settings.py.
Note: It wasn't clear to me which urls.py file to edit or create, so I edited the existing one in mysite. So now it looks like this:
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from myapp.api import EntryResource
from django.contrib import admin
entry_resource = EntryResource()
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
# url(r'^blog/', include('myapp.urls')),
url(r'^api/', include(entry_resource.urls)),
]
I commented out the 'blog' line, because it caused the error ImportError: No module named 'myapp.urls'. I think this is the step I'm stuffing up, but when I tried putting the tutorial code in myapp/urls.py instead, I got a 404 when I tried loading the page, and when I then tried adding url(r'^blog/', include('myapp.urls')) to mysite/urls.py, I got a stack overflow. So I've gone back to the code as shown above.
To be clear, here's what my file structure looks like now:
$ find . -type f -not -name '*.pyc'
./manage.py
./myapp/__init__.py
./myapp/views.py
./myapp/models.py
./myapp/tests.py
./myapp/admin.py
./myapp/apps.py
./myapp/migrations/__init__.py
./myapp/api.py
./db.sqlite3
./mysite/__init__.py
./mysite/settings.py
./mysite/urls.py
./mysite/wsgi.py
The one other change I made was adding a Meta subclass to my Entry class, so the first dozen lines look like this:
class Entry(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(User)
pub_date = models.DateTimeField(default=now)
title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
slug = models.SlugField(null=True, blank=True)
body = models.TextField()
class Meta:
app_label = 'myapp'
# __unicode__() and save() as in the tutorial
If I don't do that, I get this in the console: RuntimeError: Model class myapp.models.Entry doesn't declare an explicit app_label and isn't in an application in INSTALLED_APPS.
Another thing I tried was python manage.py migrate. It found things to do, but this hasn't fixed this error.
Here's what I've got installed (in requirements.txt/virtualenv):
Django (1.10)
django-tastypie (0.13.3)
PyYAML (3.12)
mysqlclient (1.3.10) (although I haven't actually set it up yet—I'm using the default sqlite3 setup for now)
I'm running Python 3.4.3, but I got exactly the same error using a quite similar setup in Python 2.7.6.
Finally, here's the full stack trace from that HTTP 500 page:
{"error_message": "no such table: myapp_entry", "traceback": "Traceback (most recent call last):
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 337, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: myapp_entry
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 219, in wrapper
response = callback(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 450, in dispatch_list
return self.dispatch('list', request, **kwargs)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 482, in dispatch
response = method(request, **kwargs)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/resources.py", line 1335, in get_list
to_be_serialized = paginator.page()
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/paginator.py", line 194, in page
count = self.get_count()
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/tastypie/paginator.py", line 126, in get_count
return self.objects.count()
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 369, in count
return self.query.get_count(using=self.db)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 476, in get_count
number = obj.get_aggregation(using, ['__count'])['__count']
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/query.py", line 457, in get_aggregation
result = compiler.execute_sql(SINGLE)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 835, in execute_sql
cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 79, in execute
return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 94, in __exit__
six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "~/myproject/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 337, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: no such table: myapp_entry
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Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Or does the tutorial not apply to these versions?

Answer 1

sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: myapp_entry
For one, your project is using sqlite, not mysql. You should update your DATABASES setting.
Add myapp to your INSTALLED_APPS in your project settings.
Then, run ./manage.py migrate. After fixing INSTALLED_APPS Django should be able to find the app's Entry model and create the table for it.