finally got the associations to work through black magic

src/app/api/attachment/route.ts

@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 'use server'
 
 import { APIError, attemptAPIAction } from "@/util/api/error";
-import { Auth, Post, PostTag, Tag, User } from "@/model/Models";
+import { sequelize, Bucket, Auth, Post, PostTag, Tag, User, dbSync } from "@/model/Models";
 import { cookies } from "next/headers";
 import { Attachment } from "@/model/Attachment";
 import { UUID, randomUUID } from "crypto";
 import { mkdir, mkdirSync, writeFile } from "fs";
-import { Bucket } from "@/model/Bucket";
 import { where } from "@sequelize/core";
-import { PostBucket } from "@/model/Post";
 
 
 
@@ -37,28 +35,28 @@ async function writeFilesToBucket(uuid: UUID, files:any[]) {
 
 async function addToPost(postid:number):Promise<UUID>
 {
-    const post = await Post.findOne({where: {id:postid}, include: {association: Post.associations.postBuckets}});
-    if (!post) throw new APIError({ status: 500, responseText: "invalid postid" });
-    const bucket = await Bucket.create({id:randomUUID()});
-    const bucketPost = await PostBucket.create({bucketId: bucket.id, postId: postid})
+    Post.sync();
+    const post = await Post.findOne({where: {id:postid}});
     
-    console.log(bucketPost);
-    return bucket.id
+    if (!post) throw new APIError({ status: 500, responseText: "invalid postid" });
+    const bucket = await post.createBucket({id:randomUUID()});
+    // const bucketPost = await Post.associations.postBuckets.create({bucketId: bucket.id, postId: postid})
+    
+    // console.log(bucketPost);
+    return bucket.id;
 }
 async function addToBucket(bucketid:number):Promise<UUID> {
     const bucket = await Bucket.findOne({where: {id: bucketid}});
     if (!bucket) throw new APIError({ status: 500, responseText: "invalid bucketid" });
-    return bucket.id
+    return bucket.id;
 }
 
 
 async function tryCreateAttachment(request: Request) {
 
     // Make sure the DB is ready
-    await Attachment.sync();
-    await Bucket.sync();
-    await Post.sync();
-
+    await dbSync;
+    
     // Prepare data
     const formData = await request.formData();
     const requestData:string | Object | undefined = formData.get('data')?.valueOf();