Generating enums

[askasp]

Great work on this framework.

How do you go about in creating enums? It would be awesome if it was a part of the generator. Lacking that i find it hard to add it directly to my _entities/Model.rs as that gode is overwritten on new generations.

Are there any examples on handling enums with loco?

[joshua-mo-143]

Loco uses SeaORM under the hood - you probably wanna check this: https://www.sea-ql.org/SeaORM/docs/generate-entity/enumeration

[tanto-satu]

im also curious about this, for my case i dont want to create a new type enum in the database, because using enums as per documentation at seaorm, specific to each database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). How can i achieve using enum, but with creating new table with columns data type is string/text?

My concern is to be able to switch between database (MySQL and PostgreSQL) without doing some changes in the migration.

[jtwaleson]

I create enums as strings in the database, manually write Rust enums under _entities::Model , add some comments and do a git checkout -p after cargo loco db entities. It works OK but would like to see a better solution as well. Haven't found a way to do this as part of the migrations yet.