Play! framework - database issue with Evolutions

Question

I\'m using Play! framework 2.0 and I\'m stuck on an annoying issue involving the database.

Suppose I have a User (extends Model) class which ha

Answer 1

First you need to disable automatic generation of Evolution files by deleting the first 2 commented lines of the conf/evolutions/default/1.sql:

# --- Created by Ebean DDL
# To stop Ebean DDL generation, remove this comment and start using Evolutions

# --- !Ups
...

Then, you need to create a second file, called conf/evolutions/default/2.sql containing your update on the database schema with an Ups and a Downs section:

# --- !Ups
ALTER TABLE USER ADD COLUMN last_ip varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL;

# --- !Downs

ALTER TABLE USER DELETE COLUMN last_ip;