slively / loopback-discover-models

Simple CLI to discover and write model definitions from an existing datasource.

A simple CLI tool to discover and write new model.json and model.js files by using loopback's datasource.discoverSchema API

Usage

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models -h                                                      
Usage:
  loopback-discover-models [OPTIONS] [ARGS]

Options: 
      --serverPath [PATH]Path to server.js (relative to CWD). (Default is /server/server.js)
      --modelConfigPath [PATH]Path to model-config.json (relative to CWD). (Default is /server/model-config.json)
      --modelDir [PATH]  Path to models folder (relative to CWD). (Default is /common/models)
      --dataSource [STRING]Name of the data source from data sources.json (required). (Default is db)
      --allNewModels [BOOLEAN]Discover and create all models not in modelDir. (Default is false)
      --modelName STRING Name of a single model/table/collection to create.
      --owner STRING     Name of owner/schema/database for the models.
      --relations [BOOLEAN]Include relations. (Default is false)
      --allOwners [BOOLEAN]Include All Owners. (Default is false)
      --views [BOOLEAN]  Include views. (Default is false)
      --skip STRING      Comma seperate model names to skip when discovering new models.
  -h, --help             Display help and usage details

Generate Models for all tables in the database that don't already exist as models.

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --allNewModels

generate new models, but skip the tables 'migrations' and 'some_other_table'

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --allNewModels --skip migrations,some_other_table

Generate new models and put them in a different folder

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --allNewModels --modelDir /server/models

Use prompts instead of cli flags (good for use with npm run).

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --prompt

Generate Model for a specific table/collectiom (modelName should be the table/collection name).

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --modelName some_table

Generate Model for a specific table/collectiom (modelName should be the table/collection name).

./node_modules/.bin/loopback-discover-models --modelName some_table