Skipper support site - Recent questions in Feature Request

Possible to update revision when exporting?

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:15:25 +0000

My setup is that I have a testing environment which runs via its own database and all tests are seeded as-is-needed on each test run. Therefore it's a clean database and there is no need to worry about updating the migrations data inline with a database.

This seems like the most sane way of doing this but it requires a button click for each time you export in order to update the migration, which of course needs to be always the very latest one anyway.

Is it possible to configure this? If not I think it would be a fairly common use-case so an option to configure this would be welcomed.

Laravel Model and Migration Reconcile

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:27:57 +0000

Often, I make changes to models and migrations on the fly while coding. I try to remember to go back into Skipper and duplicate these changes, but it would be nice if there was a tool within Skipper that would update a project by reconciling models and migrations updated/added outside of Skipper. If this tool was created, I'd expect that the skipper format would have to be strictly followed and the tool would reject updated/added models and migrations when it wasn't. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Stephen

Find a way for PHP attribute generator to match Symfony coding standards

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:48:36 +0000

In our quality tools, we enforce respecting Symfony's coding standards by runnig PHP CS fixer with one rule set : https://cs.symfony.com/doc/ruleSets/Symfony.html

When running CS fixer on Skipper generated Entities with attributes, the fixer alters the attributes on 4 different rules (see bellow).

When running Skipper generation again, the attributes are regenerated with Skipper's rules.

example of the "issue"

Skipper generated :

#[ORM\Table(name: "table_1",
        options: [
            "comment"=>"Long comment multiline",
            "row_format"=>"XY"
        ])]

#[ORM\Table(name: "table_2",
        options: ["comment"=>"Short comment","row_format"=>"XY"])]

PHP CS fixer "fixes" :

#[ORM\Table(name: 'table_1',
        options: [
            'comment'   => "Long comment multiline",
            'row_format'=> 'XY',
        ])]


#[ORM\Table(name: 'table_2',
        options: ['comment'=>'Short comment', 'row_format'=>'XY'])]

Propositions

A. Add a configuration to Skipper to run a post-generation script per Entity passing the Class as argument, like this

$ php vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix src/Entity/Person.php

B. Add a configuration to setup Skipper to respect the 4 rules bellow

Rules for reference

single_quote
https://cs.symfony.com/doc/rules/string_notation/single_quote.html

whitespaceaftercommainarray
https://cs.symfony.com/doc/rules/array_notation/whitespace_after_comma_in_array.html

trailingcommain_multiline
https://cs.symfony.com/doc/rules/control_structure/trailing_comma_in_multiline.html

binaryoperatorspaces
https://cs.symfony.com/doc/rules/operator/binary_operator_spaces.html

Side quest A

targetEntity could probably use ::class constant instead of explicit FQDN

#[ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity: "App\Entity\Stakeholder\Organization", mappedBy: 'activities')]

could probably be replaced by

#[ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity: Organization:class, mappedBy: 'activities')]

given the namespaces matches or the related entity is imported
but I am not sure about it and haven't tested it for now.

*To be honest, it is PHP Rector who proposed this fix when it ran it with this config https://getrector.org/blog/how-to-upgrade-annotations-to-attributes

Side quest B

named arguments order should match parameters order

Example:

#[ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity: Organization:class, mappedBy: 'activities')]

should be

#[ORM\ManyToMany(mappedBy: 'activities', targetEntity: Organization:class)]

according to \Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\OneToMany::__construct

new OneToMany($mappedBy, $targetEntity, $cascade, $fetch, $orphanRemoval, $indexBy)

Are there any plans for supporting TypeORM?

Wed, 18 May 2022 12:32:16 +0000

I've used Skipper for a few years, but stopped after moving towards JavaScript development. I'm now starting to integrate TypeORM into one of my projects and at first glance I see many similarities with Doctrine. It would be very nice to see this JS ORM framework integrated in Skipper. If so, I would certainly use Skipper again!

Setting key / index length

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:39:51 +0000

Hi,

MySQL 5.6 and Amazon Aurora have a max key length of 767 bytes. Because one character uses 4 bytes when using utf8mb4 charset, that means an index can only be created for max 191 chars. So even creating an index on a VARCHAR(255) field will fail with the error message: #1071 - Specified key was too long.

The only way to index such fields is either by reducing the field's size to 191 or by limiting the index/key length to 191.

Defining the field size in Doctrine is possible since 2.9 (see https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/pull/2412).

Can you please add an option to set the key length in Skipper? Exporting to entities should be pretty straightforward. E.g.: @Index(name="indexname", columns={"columnname"}, options={"lengths": {191}})

Thanks very much!

SSH Tunnel for MySQL Import and Navicat Support

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:21:28 +0000

I would like to pull down the schema for all my projects, but they all require an SSH tunnel to access (without replicating them all). My go-to MySQL client is Navicat which has SSH tunnel capability; so, having support for SSH tunnels, Navicat, or both would help me out a lot.

Great product btw. Thanks!

Toggle foreign key generation

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:11:02 +0000

Possibly an edge case, but I am working on a large-scale migration where we need to keep a legacy database running whilst upgrading parts of it in phases to Laravel. Both databases will reside on the same server during this development.

We have been migrating a selection of tables at a time, and in one case we are looking at generating a temporary relationship between a table in the new database and a table in the legacy database.

See the 2 many-to-many relationships coming from Organisation below.

For LegacyUserHasOrganisation, I want the relationship definitions on the model, but I want to avoid physically setting the foreign keys on the legacy database.

I'm able to manually simulate this behaviour by commenting out the foreign key generation in the migration file, e.g.

// Schema::table('legacy_user_has_organisation', function (Blueprint $table) {
//     $table->foreign('organisation_id')->references('id')->on('organisations');
//     $table->foreign('user_id')->references('User_Id')->on('users');
// });

Does functionality like this already exist in Skipper, or can it be added in a future release?

ability to choose connector locations in visual representation

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:01:41 +0000

I wanted to request the ability to move the connection points on an object in the visual representation. Even just being able to choose the side it connected to would be extremely helpful for keeping my drawings more organized.

Req. more advanced/scriptable field templates

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:59:24 +0000

I would really love more advanced field templates, that had the ability to somehow configure ORM settings for things like doctrine extensions and associations needed.

[Feature Request] Table Prefix

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 06:24:31 +0000

This may be a duplicate of: https://www.skipper18.com/support/2875/table-name-prefixes-for-each-bundle But instead of replying to a post 3 years old, I'd create a new one in hopes this is now possible.

It would be really nice to have the ability to specify a table prefix for all Entities within a Module (Laravel based project).

For example I'm working with networking / device data;
Device (physical) Ports; which are completely different from Network (tcp/udp) Ports. So I have two models in different namespaces with the same name. I know I can change the table name per-entity, but it would be nice to be able to implement a prefix on the Module and have it applied to all entities for consistency purposes.

I.E.
Module "Network" => prefix "network"
Module "Device" => prefix "device"
Entity "Network\Port" automatically sets the table name to "networkport"
Entity "Device\Port" automatically sets the table name to "deviceport"

Add support for typed properties (PHP 7.4)

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:21:21 +0000

We're already starting new projects on PHP 7.4 with strict typing and typed properties.

It would be nice if at some point in the near future Skipper would be able to export typed properties for "annotation" mode if configured to do so.

Add a legend to exported PDF / PNG

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:13:26 +0000

In discussing the data model with project stakeholders, the question always comes up at the the beginning: What do all these colors and filled/hollow shapes mean?

It would be great to have a legend explaining all the parts of the diagram like in the bottom right corner on PDF and PNG exports. Maybe it could also be a standard part of any model so that you can move it around to where it best fits your model.

Index embedded

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 07:39:58 +0000

Hi,

As it is not possible to add an index with the value of an embedded object, how can I prevent the export of the .orm files manually from removing the manually added code to include these indexes?

Thank you

Excluding tables from migrations

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 22:22:35 +0000

It would be nice to be able to ignore certain tables/regions/modules from migrations. Just like how the model-disabled property works.

My current solution is to setup a separate project file with just the tables I want. But it is not ideal.

Using Laravel Skipper 3.2.20.1575

[Todo] How to set primary and foreign key name

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:03:05 +0000

Hi,
how I can set a custom name for the primary key name?
With Laravel, I can do this:

$table->primary(['centrodilavoro_id','lavorazione_id'], 'CUSTOM_NAME);

Thanks!
Roberto

[Todo] Collapsible side-panels

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:20:24 +0000

At the moment we have the possibility to show/hide the panels separately. I miss the feature known from different IDEs (Visual Studio is a good example), where I can collapse the panels and make them temporarily visible when needed either by moving the mouse cursor to the edge of the window or by clicking on a narrow stripe left in place of a collapsed panel.

I know the panels can be put outside of the main window but they are still visible and while using multiple monitors, moving the main window becomes tedious.

The "problem" becomes obvious even with a relatively small models, where you have to scroll them quite intense to get to the outer entities. I'm working on a such one with ~25 entities divided into a few modules on a 24" monitor and would like to move the panels "out of the sight" when I don't need them (e.g. when I want to see a "bigger picture"), but also be able to make them quickly visible in order to search for something, edit a property or just for the navigator to jump to some region (there are always models that big, so that they don't fit the screen;)).

Import Existing Project Entities - Doctrine2 not defined nullable

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:55:19 +0000

Hello,

I'm facing a issue/problem. I have a working project with Symfony 4 (using doctrine2 annotations) with a relative massive amount of entities. I'm trying to import and export the entities after some changes. The problem is that by default doctrine sets "nullable=false" as default if nullable is not defined.

Doctrine 2.6 Documentation

Actually in my Entities I didn't set nullable so the spected behavior is to Skipper detects all the fields as NOT NULL. But this doesn't happen and also when I export all the entities again everything changes to nullable=true.

Is this a issue? or there's a workaround for this instead of setting all fields to NOT NULL manually?

Thanks.

able to manualy change relation-lines join ponts (incorrect display of relation lines)

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:05:10 +0000

Please make able to manualy change relation-lines join ponts.
Look at that image - a have no way to make it look better.

I try move entity card up/down. Something was changed, but it still looks bad.
And I just waste my time with that attempts to make my scheme look better.

Have a look for that case please
Entity card has point to join relation-lines. User can drag-n-drop line between points.

I don't say that i need drag-n-drop there. Just the way to work with it.
Now i have to move entity cards until all relation-lines makes full-visibility.

Please make something with it!

Index on Embedded

Mon, 07 May 2018 08:07:28 +0000

Hi,

I have an entity Address embedded in another entity Company.
I just want to add an index like it's possible to do in Company based on a field which is in Address. There is no way to do that actually.

Is it possible to add in the "Indexes" window of an entity the list of the fields of Embedded entities ?

Thanks!

Export @var annotation on class Properties

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:07:09 +0000

Is it possible to export @var annotations on class properties?

Like this:

/**
 * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255, nullable=true)
 *
 * @var string
 */
private $firstname;

Would be much nicer to generate type-hinted getters and setters from this.

Of course using FQCN for related objects would also be very nice.

Also it would be very nice to have templating control over how annotations are generated to add Symfony validation constraints for example.

When will Skipper support Traits?

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:35:08 +0000

Hello!

I think that I've asked this a few years from now. Just wanted to know if this is something you'll eventually plan or have in mind!

Thanks!

Custom flags for index

Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:11:11 +0000

Hello,

I'd like to add a custom index flag, called "spatial" but the app only allows to use fulltext. Could you change that field to allows multiple values?

Thanks

One to Many generate object properties without 's'

Tue, 16 May 2017 08:05:18 +0000

Hi,

When we generate an ORM doctrine schema for exemple :

User -> Picture the property inside user is 'picture' and not 'pictures'.

I known if for exemple the the name of the poperty is ''body' for exemple it will be 'bodys' but i think we could find some rules.

Thx for your product.

Django support

Sat, 06 May 2017 06:02:50 +0000

When are you guys planning on supporting Django?

[fixed] "json" datatype for doctrine2

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:38:57 +0000

Hello,

The "json" does not exist in Skipper18!

The "json_array" is deprecated since the 2.6, use json instead ...

https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/blob/master/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Types/JsonArrayType.php#L28

thank you

option to "reset" the default position of the "Caption" text

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:51:38 +0000

Hello,

Could you add the possibility of "reset" the default position of the "Caption" text.
Because when the "Caption" text is moved, is not possible to return to default position ...
It's boring afterwards ...

Thank you

Using contant value as inheritance discriminator

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:23:09 +0000

It is not a big deal, but I used to define constants and used them to define discriminator in ORM mapping of inheritance discriminator map.

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="RecordRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="record")
 * @ORM\InheritanceType("SINGLE_TABLE")
 * @ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name="discr", type="string")
 * @ORM\DiscriminatorMap({
 *     Record::RECORD_TYPE_OFFER:"Offer",
 *     Record::RECORD_TYPE_ORDER:"Order",
 *     Record::RECORD_TYPE_INVOICE:"Invoice"
 * })
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
 */
abstract class Record implements Commentable, Editable, Deletable, DetailPath, Loggable
{
    use LoggedEntity, CommentedEntity;

    const RECORD_TYPE_INVOICE = 'INVOICE';
    const RECORD_TYPE_OFFER = 'OFFER';
    const RECORD_TYPE_ORDER = 'ORDER';

Skipper changes those constants after export to strings. It would be nice, if skipper detects these constant by having two colons in name and not putting those quotes in annotation.

Placement of new many-to-many entities (top right) :(

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:45:16 +0000

Hello,

When creating relationships from several to many,
It would be good if the linking entity did not find it in the upper right,
But positioned between the two related entities,
because :
When you manipulate huge models,
It quickly becomes annoying from this walk in the model

Thank you

instant search filters to select entities

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:44:52 +0000

Hello,

When there are hundreds of entities ...
It would be good to have "instant search filters" in some strategic locations
Because it is complicated to pass the complete list

Thank you

An example:

generator / editor of many-to-many, with extra columns

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:44:41 +0000

Hello,

Would it be possible to have a generator / editor of many-to-many, with extra columns?

Yes it is possible to do this manually, but, tool to generate it or to edit a realation of this type would be a comfort.

Person ← one-to-many → Job ← many-to-one → Company

Execute additional/external program after export

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:26:04 +0000

Hi,

I suggested to run external commands by hotkeys but this may be quicker to implement and better for such jobs.

Is it possible to add an ability to run/execute an external tool after export done? So, When we export the ORM, we can automatically execute our command to generate Getters and Setters.

Thanks,
Gencer.

[Feature request] Auto truncate whitespace or give a warning

Tue, 31 May 2016 15:51:43 +0000

Hello. Now I can write any properties with whitespace. Project imports correctly and then I receive errors in php code.

Moving connectors etc.

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:27:12 +0000

Some suggestions for a future version:

As mentioned in a previous post, a list of updates that are easy to see in the app.
Ability to move joining lines:

http://screencast.com/t/OZZi8wuk
http://screencast.com/t/tCo0A4KTLru

thanks

Ability to run external tools by shortcut/hotkey

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 20:23:13 +0000

How about executing/running an external tool (for example getter/setter app) by a keyboard shortcut / hotkey that we add in options?

It would be awesome and time savior (as skipper already for kind this job).

Support for PSR-4 namespace when exporting to ORM

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:44:05 +0000

I have a Zend Framework 2 project with Doctrine 2 that is set up to use PSR-4 auto-loading:

"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "Application\\": "module/Application/src/"
    }
}

When I configure my module's export path in Skipper, I set the 'Relative Export Path' like this: ..\..\MyApp\module\Application\src\ and set the filename format to subdirectories-by-namespace
The problem is that it exports the files to C:\...\MyApp\module\Application\src\Application\Entity\Model\User\ when I want it to be C:\...\MyApp\module\Application\src\Entity\Model\User\.

Feature request:
It would be nice to have an option in the config where I can define the namespace prefix like this:

possibility to export description fields

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:12:49 +0000

My problem is that the description fields of entities won't exported to orm files.
I created a complete complex database with Skipper and I filled all of the description fields hoping that it will be exported too. But I see it is not an option currently. So my description fields are all useless because no one can see it only me in Skipper.

Is there any possibility to export it as at least a comment in the php annotations for doctrine 2? Or any other export possibilty? Any way to export those comments at least into text files?

Thanks

Matyas Majzik

Test export with diff

Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:03:25 +0000

I would like to do a test export of the project and see a diff of the changes that will be made.

Doctrine2: Second level cache for associations

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:03:09 +0000

Received by email:

I just saw that Doctrine is supporting entity cache on associations, in Skipper I've only found the property on Entities.

http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/second-level-cache.html#association-cache-definition

DateInterval Type Mapping

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:26:31 +0000

Doctrine mapping supports DateInterval type: http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/reference/types.html#dateinterval

It doesn't seem to exist in Skipper v3.2.4.1256

Associations order

Mon, 25 May 2015 08:59:29 +0000

Hello

It would be nice to be able to order associations. The order associations appear in the mapping is important when you want to chose the columns order for a composite primary key using foreign keys

Multiple index order

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:52:04 +0000

Hello

Using doctrine2 mapping, we would like to define the column order in multiple index. Right now we can just select the column without choosing the order in the index.

Cheers

Damien

[Feature Request] Association Overrides

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:42:16 +0000

As part of doctrine features, we would need to override attributes and associations.
Specifications : http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/override-field-association-mappings-in-subclasses.html

Cheers

[Feature Request] Inheritance / Association Views

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:52:51 +0000

Working on a huge file right now, basically all the connection lines are a complete mess. We already deleted most the labels simply because it made everything even less readable instead of more.

Some highly useful editor productivity features would be:

View Hide/Show Inheritance connections
View Hide/Show Association connections
Select an entity (via option click or special selector tool) and highlight (thicker lines or color maybe) all of it's connections and connected objects (extra credit to be able to highlight with just the first and optionally the entire hierarchy to the selected object)
Select a property of an entity and do same just limited to associations and/or relations to that particular property instead the entire entity
Select a connection (it highlights now) but also highlight the associated properties and entities

[Feature request] Allow more control over the path taken by relationships between entities

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:43:06 +0000

Add the ability to
- set exact position of each end of the relationship on the entity
- determine the path taken from one entity to the other (within reason - should be able to use either a single straight line; two lines one at 90 degrees to the other, or three straight lines with two changes of direction)

[Feature request] Multiple views of a model

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:35:38 +0000

It would be very useful to be able to create views (read-only or updatable) which only contain selected entities, and their relationships.

Similar to Modules, but only showing relationships between the selected entities.

[Feature request] Open entity in IDE

Mon, 22 Dec 2014 06:47:42 +0000

I'd like to be able to call the external tools from the context menu.

i.e. right click on an entity -> external tools -> edit in PhpStorm
i.e. right click on an entity -> external tools -> diff with previous history in PhpStorm
(phpstorm has a command line interface to invoke various functions)

The configured tools would need to access the entity's properties to create the filename.

regards
Steve Groom

[Feature request] how do I automate an association in the project confg on an entity creation?

Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:29:59 +0000

I have a project in which all entities have a certain association to one table.
I would like to automate this in the same way I have extra fields automaticaly created. Can I do this and how?
I tried the following without success:

<template element='entity' use-case='create'>
                <entity>
                    <field name="id" type="string" required="true" unique="true" primary="true" auto-increment="false"/> 
                    <field name="account_id" type="string" required="true" />
                    <field name="name" type="string" required="true"/> 
                    <field name="description" type="string" required="false"/> 
                    <field name="created_at" type="datetime" required="true"/> 
                    <field name="created_by" type="string" required="true"/> 
                    <field name="updated_at" type="datetime" required="true"/> 
                    <field name="updated_by" type="datetime" required="true"/> 
                    <field name="is_active" type="boolean" /> 

                </entity>
                <association from="{entity-owner#UL}" to="Account" owner-alias="{entity-owner#UL}Of" inverse-alias="account_id"/> 
            </template>

Index field order

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:13:23 +0000

Mysql is picky on the order of the columns in a multi-column index. The order in which fields are checked when defining an index in Skipper should be honoured.

This is how mysql workbench handles and visualizes the index column order:

Support for @ORM\MappedSuperclass

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:51:56 +0000

I'm using @ORM\MappedSuperclass to have Entity inheritance. Skipper doesn't recognize that file, so entity inheritance isn't showed properly and can't be exported either (without messing up the existing structure).

[Feature request] attributes visibility

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:15:27 +0000

hi hi;
how can i change attribute visibility for all generated attributes for all generated classes?
i want to set all attributes to protected or even public by default
i don't really care about "security" implications, this fits my needs and project needs so its completely fine
lets say i have average 80 tables * 2-15 fields, and i really don't feel comfortable with changing it by hand or scripting :/
so how can i achieve this by default/plugin/whatever proposed method that i can use in skipper?

thx