I am trying to create a relationship between categories and products. I have provided the various columns for both tables and I am trying to link them using a foreign id (the category_id from the category table) but I keep getting this error.
Integrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint failsIntegrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row but it does not answer the question
This is my Category table
public function up()
{
Schema::create('categories', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
And this is the product table
public function up()
{
Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->unsignedInteger('category_id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('description');
$table->string('image');
$table->integer('price');
$table->foreign('category_id')
->references('id')
->on('categories')
->onDelete('cascade');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
This is the category model.
class Category extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
protected $fillable = [
'name',
];
public function products()
{
return $this->hasMany(Product::class);
}
}
This is the product model
class Product extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
protected $fillable = [
'name',
'description',
'image',
'price',
'category_id',
];
public function category()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Category::class);
}
public function setPriceAttribute($value)
{
$this->attributes['price'] = $value * 100;
}
}
This is my Product Factory class
<?php
namespace DatabaseFactories;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesFactory;
class ProductFactory extends Factory
{
public function definition()
{
return [
'name'=>$this->faker->unique()->word(),
'description'=>$this->faker->text(),
'image'=>$this->faker->imageUrl(100, 100),
'price'=>$this->faker->numberBetween($min = 50, $max = 100),
'category_id'=>$this->faker->randomDigit()
];
}
}
This is my db seeder class
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
public function run()
{
Product::factory(20)->create();
}
}
This is the full error code I am getting please after running the db:seed
INFO Seeding database.
IlluminateDatabaseQueryException
SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1452 Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`econs`.`products`, CONSTRAINT `products_category_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`category_id`) REFERENCES `categories` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE) (SQL: insert into `products` (`name`, `description`, `image`, `price`, `category_id`, `updated_at`, `created_at`) values (omnis, Facere autem excepturi velit dolorem voluptas. Dignissimos laboriosam quia numquam sint harum officia eum. A aspernatur ratione fuga ut nesciunt sit. Ex nisi maxime quas., https://via.placeholder.com/100x100.png/006611?text=aut, 5700, 4, 2022-10-10 11:49:55, 2022-10-10 11:49:55))
at vendor/Laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:759
755▕ // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
756▕ // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
757▕ // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
758▕ catch (Exception $e) {
➜ 759▕ throw new QueryException(
760▕ $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
761▕ );
762▕ }
763▕ }
+16 vendor frames
17 database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php:26
IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesFactory::create()
+23 vendor frames
41 artisan:37
IlluminateFoundationConsoleKernel::handle()
3
Answers
Try changing
$table->unsignedInteger('category_id');
to$table->unsignedBigInteger('category_id');
and also confirm that there is category id 4 present in Categories tableYou’re using
$this->faker->randomDigit()
which creates a random digit, and doesn’t care if the category ID exists or not. For your factory, you can grab a random category and use it’s id:It will fetch only one category in random order. After that give you the id attribute, If anything issue happens, then it will insert 1 as category id. But it will not through any exception.