Using Auto Incrementing fields with PostgreSQL and Slick

Question

How does one insert records into PostgreSQL using AutoInc keys with Slick mapped tables? If I use and Option for the id in my case class and set it to None, then PostgreSQL

Answer 1

This is working here:

object Application extends Table[(Long, String)]("application") {   
    def idlApplication = column[Long]("idlapplication", O.PrimaryKey, O.AutoInc)
    def appName = column[String]("appname")
    def * = idlApplication ~ appName
    def autoInc = appName returning idlApplication
}

var id = Application.autoInc.insert("App1")

This is how my SQL looks:

CREATE TABLE application
(idlapplication BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
appName VARCHAR(500));

Update:

The specific problem with regard to a mapped table with User (as in the question) can be solved as follows:

  def forInsert = first ~ last <>
    ({ (f, l) => User(None, f, l) }, { u:User => Some((u.first, u.last)) })

This is from the test cases in the Slick git repository.