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

The simplest solution was to use the SERIAL type like this:

def id = column[Long]("id", SqlType("SERIAL"), O.PrimaryKey, O.AutoInc)

Here's a more concrete block:

// A case class to be used as table map
case class CaseTable( id: Long = 0L, dataType: String, strBlob: String)

// Class for our Table
class MyTable(tag: Tag) extends Table[CaseTable](tag, "mytable") {
  // Define the columns
  def dataType = column[String]("datatype")
  def strBlob = column[String]("strblob")

  // Auto Increment the id primary key column
  def id = column[Long]("id", SqlType("SERIAL"),  O.PrimaryKey,  O.AutoInc)

  // the * projection (e.g. select * ...) auto-transforms the tupled column values
  def * = (id, dataType, strBlob) <> (CaseTable.tupled, CaseTable.unapply _)

}


// Insert and  get auto incremented primary key
def insertData(dataType: String, strBlob: String, id: Long = 0L): Long = {
  // DB Connection
  val db = Database.forURL(jdbcUrl, pgUser, pgPassword, driver = driverClass)
  // Variable to run queries on our table
  val myTable = TableQuery[MyTable]

  val insert = try {
    // Form the query
    val query = myTable returning myTable.map(_.id) += CaseTable(id, dataType, strBlob)
    // Execute it and wait for result
    val autoId = Await.result(db.run(query), maxWaitMins)
    // Return ID
    autoId
  }
  catch {
    case e: Exception => {
      logger.error("Error in inserting using Slick: ", e.getMessage)
      e.printStackTrace()
      -1L
    }
  }
  insert
}