Django tests pass locally but not on Github Actions push - sql

Question

My tests pass locally and in fact on Github Actions it also says "ran 8 tests" and then "OK" (and I have 8). However, the test stage fails due to a strange error in the traceback.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 82, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 421, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query)
sqlite3.OperationalError: near "SCHEMA": syntax error
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/work/store/store/manage.py", line 22, in <module>
main()
File "/home/runner/work/store/store/manage.py", line 18, in main
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 419, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 413, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 23, in run_from_argv
super().run_from_argv(argv)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 354, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 398, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/test.py", line 55, in handle
failures = test_runner.run_tests(test_labels)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/test/runner.py", line 736, in run_tests
self.teardown_databases(old_config)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django_heroku/core.py", line 41, in teardown_databases
self._wipe_tables(connection)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django_heroku/core.py", line 26, in _wipe_tables
cursor.execute(
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 66, in execute
return self._execute_with_wrappers(sql, params, many=False, executor=self._execute)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 75, in _execute_with_wrappers
return executor(sql, params, many, context)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 90, in __exit__
raise dj_exc_value.with_traceback(traceback) from exc_value
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 82, in _execute
return self.cursor.execute(sql)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.9.9/x64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 421, in execute
return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: near "SCHEMA": syntax error
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
These are all just default Django files and I haven't messed with any of them. I don't really know what to do about it and internet searches yield nothing helpful.

Answer 1

Just had the same issue. For me I had django_heroku in my project settings.py. It looks like, based on the comments that your app is using this.
I had something like this in settings.py:
import django_heroku
django_heroku.settings(locals())
change to the following so it doesn't use django_heroku on github actions:
if os.environ.get('ENVIRONMENT') != 'github':
import django_heroku
django_heroku.settings(locals())
and then declare an environment variable in the workflow file, I have this:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
max-parallel: 4
matrix:
python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, '3.10']
env:
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: "someKey"
ENVIRONMENT: github
Note: this is assuming you have environment variables setup. I know there are different ways of doing it, so depending on how they are setup you might have to change how they are accessed
more info here
edit:
As per the comments, you don't have to declare an additional environment variable because github has a default variable called GITHUB_ACTIONS
so you can do
if os.environ.get('GITHUB_ACTIONS') != 'true':
import django_heroku
django_heroku.settings(locals())