Scaffold existing DB

[juniorschroder]

Will be Nice and helpfull to port existing projects to adonisjs, a command in ace to connect database and generate models

[thetutlage]

I thought about it, not only the generating models, even updating them with new columns. So ideally, you always write migrations by hand and then run node ace update:models to get them in sync with your database.

But there are couple of issues with this

• Need to store table -> model mappings somewhere (I usually hate generating these sort of manifest files)
• Retaining the file formatting as it was earlier. So we began by generating the AST, update the AST and then write it back as a string. However, the existing tools like tsc or recast are not 100% perfect in retaining the file formatting.

[thetutlage]

If anyone, who has interests in working with AST can ping me here and I can get them up and running by sharing the idea and small prototype I have around this.

[juniorschroder]

I can try help with this

[thetutlage]

Cool. Give me a day or so and then I will share all the research and maybe some concrete steps on how to proceed forward :)

[shemsiu]

I can try to help as well :)

[unolee]

I can try to help.