Gormigrate

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/gorm as its import path), please import Gormigrate by using the gopkg.in/gormigrate.v1 import path.

The current Gorm version (v2) is supported by using the github.com/go-gormigrate/gormigrate/v2 import path as described in the documentation below.

Supported databases

It supports any of the databases Gorm supports:

MySQL
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Microsoft SQL Server
TiDB
Clickhouse

Usage

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/go-gormigrate/gormigrate/v2"
	"github.com/google/uuid"
	"gorm.io/driver/sqlite"
	"gorm.io/gorm"
	"gorm.io/gorm/logger"
)

func main() {
	db, err := gorm.Open(sqlite.Open("./data.db"), &gorm.Config{
		Logger: logger.Default.LogMode(logger.Info),
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	m := gormigrate.New(db, gormigrate.DefaultOptions, []*gormigrate.Migration{{
		// create `users` 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 user struct {
				ID   uuid.UUID `gorm:"type:uuid;primaryKey;uniqueIndex"`
				Name string
			}
			return tx.Migrator().CreateTable(&user{})
		},
		Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
			return tx.Migrator().DropTable("users")
		},
	}, {
		// add `age` column to `users` table
		ID: "201608301415",
		Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
			// when table already exists, define only columns that are about to change
			type user struct {
				Age int
			}
			return tx.Migrator().AddColumn(&user{}, "Age")
		},
		Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
			type user struct {
				Age int
			}
			return db.Migrator().DropColumn(&user{}, "Age")
		},
	}, {
		// create `organizations` table where users belong to
		ID: "201608301430",
		Migrate: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
			type organization struct {
				ID      uuid.UUID `gorm:"type:uuid;primaryKey;uniqueIndex"`
				Name    string
				Address string
			}
			if err := tx.Migrator().CreateTable(&organization{}); err != nil {
				return err
			}
			type user struct {
				OrganizationID uuid.UUID `gorm:"type:uuid"`
			}
			return tx.Migrator().AddColumn(&user{}, "OrganizationID")
		},
		Rollback: func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
			type user struct {
				OrganizationID uuid.UUID `gorm:"type:uuid"`
			}
			if err := db.Migrator().DropColumn(&user{}, "OrganizationID"); err != nil {
				return err
			}
			return tx.Migrator().DropTable("organizations")
		},
	}})

	if err = m.Migrate(); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Migration failed: %v", err)
	}
	log.Println("Migration did run successfully")
}

Having a separate function for initializing the schema

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 Organization struct {
	gorm.Model
	Name    string
	Address string
}

type User struct {
	gorm.Model
	Name string
	Age int
	OrganizationID uint
}

m := gormigrate.New(db, gormigrate.DefaultOptions, []*gormigrate.Migration{
    // your migrations here
})

m.InitSchema(func(tx *gorm.DB) error {
	err := tx.AutoMigrate(
		&Organization{},
		&User{},
		// all other tables of you app
	)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := tx.Exec("ALTER TABLE users ADD CONSTRAINT fk_users_organizations FOREIGN KEY (organization_id) REFERENCES organizations (id)").Error; err != nil {
		return err
	}
	// all other constraints, indexes, etc...
	return nil
})

Options

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
}

Who is Gormigrate for?

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.

Contributing

To run integration tests, some preparations are needed. Please ensure you have task and docker installed. Then:

Ensure target or all databases are available and ready to accept connections. You can start databases locally with task docker:compose:up
Copy integration-test/.example.env as integration-test/.env and adjust the database connection ports and credentials when needed.
Run integration test for single database or for all

# run test for MySQL
task test:mysql

# run test for MariaDB
task test:mariadb

# run test for PostgreSQL
task test:postgres

# run test for SQLite
task test:sqlite

# run test for Microsoft SQL Server
task test:sqlserver

# run test for all databases
task test:all

Alternatively, you can run everything in one step: task docker:test

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