Unable to add sails-mysql as non-default datastore - mysql

Question

I got stuck for days now, trying to add mysql to my sails project as a non default datastore. If anybody knows a solution. Please
It seems like the additional datastore inside config/datastores.js is not being registered, or the error that is showing is not correct.
"sails": "^1.4.0",
"sails-mysql": "^1.0.1"
I keep getting this error:
error: A hook (orm) failed to load! error: Could not tear down the
ORM hook. Error details: Error: Invalid data store identity. No data
store exist with that identity.
config/datastores.js
module.exports.datastores = {
default: {
adapter: 'sails-disk',
},
mysqlDB: {
adapter: 'sails-mysql',
url: `mysql://${process.env.TC_DB_USERNAME}:${process.env.TC_DB_PASSWORD}#${process.env.TC_DB_HOST}:3306/Auth`,
},
};
api/models/Account.js
module.exports = {
datastore: 'mysqlDB',
schema: false,
};
As a workaround, I am using standard 'mysql' package to connect inside a helper. This works perfectly fine, but is resource heavy and I would love to get standard sails methods (Account.sendNativeQuery()) for the model to work.
If I can't get that to work, maybe someone can tell me how to make this connection global, so I only have to connect once and not on every helper call?
helpers/new-account.js
var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: process.env.TC_DB_HOST,
user: process.env.TC_DB_USERNAME,
password: process.env.TC_DB_PASSWORD,
database: 'Auth',
});
connection.connect();
module.exports = {
friendlyName: 'Creates new account',
description: 'returns the id of the new usr or throws error',
inputs: {
username: {
description: 'The new account name.',
type: 'string',
required: true,
minLength: 4,
maxLength: 64,
},
salt: {
required: true,
type: 'ref',
description: 'generated salt.',
},
verifier: {
required: true,
type: 'ref',
description: 'generated verifier.',
},
email: {
required: true,
type: 'string',
isEmail: true,
description: 'Email linked to account.',
},
},
exits: {
success: {
description: 'All done.',
},
},
fn: async function ({ username, salt, verifier, email }, exits) {
connection.query(
'INSERT INTO account SET ?',
{ username, salt, verifier, email },
function (err, result) {
if (err) {
throw new Error(`MYSQL ERROR: ${err}`);
} else {
console.log(`new user with id ${result.insertId} created.`);
exits.success(result.insertId);
}
}
);
connection.end();
},
};
Thank you

Answer 1

Try requiring the sails-mysql package rather than just including the stringified name, for example:
module.exports.datastores = {
default: {
adapter: 'sails-disk',
},
mysqlDB: {
adapter: require('sails-mysql'),
url: `mysql://${process.env.TC_DB_USERNAME}:${process.env.TC_DB_PASSWORD}#${process.env.TC_DB_HOST}:3306/Auth`,
},
};