entimport Roadmap

[zeevmoney]

Current roadmap for entimport.
This is an open discussions, the list may be changed.
Contributions to the task content and task themselves are welcome.

• Add support for special types:
  • JSON
  • postgres.NetworkType
  • mysql.Set type
  • postgres.BitType
  • SpatialType
  • postgres.CurrencyType
  • postgres.XMLType
  • postgres.ArrayType
  • postgres.UserDefinedType
  • UUID.
• Support table renaming: schema name prefix or custom prefix. See: How to generate Ent schemas for whole Postgres DB #29 and add prefix/suffix if ent reserved words are detected #30
• Add support for non go driver MySQL DSNs in the mux.
• Index support (currently Unique index is supported).
• Support for editing schema both manually and automatically (real upsert and not only overwrite)
• Export API
• Add indentations (pretty print). See entimport should include newlines in generated output #34

[thmeitz]

please add mysql.Set type
see #28

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/set.html
• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/set-data-type/

[zeevmoney]

please add mysql.Set type see #28

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/set.html
• https://mariadb.com/kb/en/set-data-type/

Hi @thmeitz, thanks for reaching out!

I will prioritize it. Can be done using field "string" and ent SchemaType, requires some work in contrib/schemast and in this repo of course.