Elixir not creating my tables with default values

Question

class MyObject(Entity):
    name = Field(Unicode(256), default=u'default name', nullable=False)

    using_options(shortnames=True)
    using_mapper_options(save_on_init=False)

    def __init__(self):
        self.name = None  

I am using MySQL in this case, but have also checked against SQLite and I get the same result. It respects nullable, but ignores default entirely. I don't get any error messages, and it creates the tables just fine. I could go back through and add the defaults, but this is a serious pain that I would like to avoid if possible.

I've tried it with other Field types, but still no joy.

Answer 1

default keyword argument in SQLAlchemy is for Python runtime default value, it's used for INSERT statements. Use PassiveDefault() object as positional argument when you really need database level default.