hi guys when i created the class AcademicExperience, i ran python3 manage.py makemigrations and i got this error

Please what do i do in this situation. or should have i run a different command instead

@JoeyStk & @to-sta

@amikable-tech this prompt is raised because there is a database with data and migrations in the project. Like the message stats:

It is impossible to add a non-nullable field 'user' to personalinformation without specifying a default. This is because the database needs somthing to populate existing rows.

There are mulitple ways of dealing with this:

Setting the null keyword argument for the user field to True or default=None. But these are both just hotfixes. Since we have the db.sqllite3 and the __pycache__/ files in the gitignore, i will delete these files and make another commit. I will also add migrations to the .gitignore file for now @JoeyStk since we are not in production there is no need to keep migrations yet.

class PersonalInformation(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25, blank=False)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
    ...

class PersonalInformation(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25, blank=False)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=None)
    ...

Then it should work well 😃. You should copy your changes and then pull the latest version.

Now there is no db.sqllite3 inside the repo as well as migration files (0001_ intial.py,...) and __pycache__. You might have to delete your db.sqllite3 before you make migrations again.