Gormigrate is a minimalistic migration helper for Gorm. Gorm already has useful migrate functions, just misses proper schema versioning and migration rollback support.
IMPORTANT: If you need support to Gorm v1 (which uses
github.com/jinzhu/gormas its import path), please import Gormigrate by using thegopkg.in/gormigrate.v1import path.The current Gorm version (v2) is supported by using the
github.com/go-gormigrate/gormigrate/v2import path as described in the documentation below.
It supports any of the databases Gorm supports:
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- SQLite
- Microsoft SQL Server
package main import ( "log" "github.com/go-gormigrate/gormigrate/v2" "gorm.io/gorm" _ "github.com/jinzhu/gorm/dialects/sqlite" ) func main() { db, err := gorm.Open("sqlite3", "mydb.sqlite3") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } db.LogMode(true) m := gormigrate.New(db, gormigrate.DefaultOptions, []*gormigrate.Migration{ // create persons table { ID: "201608301400", Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { // it's a good pratice to copy the struct inside the function, // so side effects are prevented if the original struct changes during the time type Person struct { gorm.Model Name string } return tx.AutoMigrate(&Person{}) }, Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { return tx.Migrator().DropTable("people") }, }, // add age column to persons { ID: "201608301415", Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { // when table already exists, it just adds fields as columns type Person struct { Age int } return tx.AutoMigrate(&Person{}) }, Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { return tx.Migrator().DropColumn("people", "age") }, }, // add pets table { ID: "201608301430", Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { type Pet struct { gorm.Model Name string PersonID int } return tx.AutoMigrate(&Pet{}) }, Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error { return tx.Migrator().DropTable("pets") }, }, }) if err = m.Migrate(); err != nil { log.Fatalf("Could not migrate: %v", err) } log.Printf("Migration did run successfully") }If you have a lot of migrations, it can be a pain to run all them, as example, when you are deploying a new instance of the app, in a clean database. To prevent this, you can set a function that will run if no migration was run before (in a new clean database). Remember to create everything here, all tables, foreign keys and what more you need in your app.
type Person struct { gorm.Model Name string Age int } type Pet struct { gorm.Model Name string PersonID int } m := gormigrate.New(db, gormigrate.DefaultOptions, []*gormigrate.Migration{ // you migrations here }) m.InitSchema(func(tx *gorm.DB) error { err := tx.AutoMigrate( &Person{}, &Pet{}, // all other tables of you app ) if err != nil { return err } if err := tx.Exec("ALTER TABLE pets ADD CONSTRAINT fk_pets_people FOREIGN KEY (person_id) REFERENCES people (id)").Error; err != nil { return err } // all other foreign keys... return nil })This is the options struct, in case you don't want the defaults:
type Options struct { // TableName is the migration table. TableName string // IDColumnName is the name of column where the migration id will be stored. IDColumnName string // IDColumnSize is the length of the migration id column IDColumnSize int // UseTransaction makes Gormigrate execute migrations inside a single transaction. // Keep in mind that not all databases support DDL commands inside transactions. UseTransaction bool // ValidateUnknownMigrations will cause migrate to fail if there's unknown migration // IDs in the database ValidateUnknownMigrations bool }Gormigrate was born to be a simple and minimalistic migration tool for small projects that uses Gorm. You may want to take a look at more advanced solutions like golang-migrate/migrate if you plan to scale.
Be aware that Gormigrate has no builtin lock mechanism, so if you're running it automatically and have a distributed setup (i.e. more than one executable running at the same time), you might want to use a distributed lock/mutex mechanism to prevent race conditions while running migrations.
To run tests, first copy .sample.env as sample.env and edit the connection string of the database you want to run tests against. Then, run tests like below:
# running tests for PostgreSQL go test -tags postgresql # running test for MySQL go test -tags mysql # running tests for SQLite go test -tags sqlite # running tests for SQL Server go test -tags sqlserver # running test for multiple databases at once go test -tags 'sqlite postgresql mysql'Or altenatively, you could use Docker to easily run tests on all databases at once. To do that, make sure Docker is installed and running in your machine and then run:
task docker