Migrating from v2

Version 3 introduces significant changes in how Kanel is configured and unless you ran it with an absolute minimum of customization, you will need to make some adjustments.

You can see the new type for the configuration object in Config.ts.

index.ts

Kanel no longer generates an index.ts file per default. There is a hook provided called generateIndexFile which you can use if you want it.

You should probably call this as the last hook in your list, as it will create references to everything created by previous hooks.

In .kanelrc.js:

const { generateIndexFile } = require("kanel");

module.exports = {
  connection: "...",

  // Generate an index file with exports of everything
  preRenderHooks: [generateIndexFile],
};

Nominators

The nominators have been replaced by getMetadata, getPropertyMetadata and generateIdentifierType. These functions can be configured to return a custom name, comment and other things to customize your output.

The hooks are more or less intact as postRenderHooks. Those take a path and an array of strings, allowing you to do crude processing if necessary. However, you will probably prefer to create preRenderHooks that operate on more abstract data models and allow you more flexibility.

Ignoring entities

The schema.ignore property has been replaced by one general typeFilter function which can filter out any table, view or other entity that you don't want to process.

If you used to have an ignore property like this:

ignore: [/^celery/, /^djcelery/],

you could replace it with this:

typeFilter: d => ![/^celery/, /^djcelery/].some((v) => v.test(d.name)),

customTypeMap

The customTypeMap has changed slightly as well. It should now be indexed by schemaName.typeName. For builtin types, this means you specify them as pg_catalog.float8 etc. Also, you no longer have to specify array types explicitly as these should be resolved using the same rules as non-array types.

External types

The externalTypesFolder has been removed. Kanel will now assume that all types that are referenced as a simple string are built-in Typescript types (like string, number, Record<>, etc.). If you want to refer to a type that you created in a different file or that exists in an external package, you need to reference it as a TypeImport. You can do that in tagged comments like this: @type(EmailString, "./models/types/EmailString", false, true) Email address -- this will import a type called EmailString from a file of the same name in the types folder. It will be imported as a named import.