How to manually insert ForeignKeyFields in Python Peewee?

Question

I'm using the Python Peewee ORM and I wonder how I can insert a foreign field by simply inserting the key, instead of an object itself. For example, I've got a model called message with a message_type, which is a ForeignKeyField. I know that the key to the message_type is 1, so I try this:

>>> m = Message()
>>> m.message_type_id = 1
>>> m.text="aergaer"
>>> m.save()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/peewee.py", line 2479, in save
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/peewee.py", line 1775, in execute
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/peewee.py", line 1470, in _execute
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/peewee.py", line 1885, in execute_sql
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/peewee.py", line 1871, in sql_error_handler
sqlite3.IntegrityError: message.message_type_id may not be NULL

Does anybody know how I can do this?

Answer 1

I'm curious why you're using integer values, the benefit of an ORM is to be able to work with objects...

But, if you want you can:

m = Message()
m.message_type = 1
m.text = 'whateve