ifelere / play.evolutions.entities.generator

Scala Slick case classes and table mapping generator

play.evolutions.entities.generator

Scala Slick case classes and table mapping generator

Slick's SourceCodeGenerator does an amazing job of generating supporting classes straight from the database. I am in a virgin stage of use slick for playframework and I want to see source files for table mappings. Plus I want to be able to support custom types for a project I am working on. In the past I got by with just a few table mappings that I wrote so it wasn't tedious. This is not the case for a project I am working on now and it was tedious to write the play evolution scripts and write table mappings manually. Therefore I turned to Slick's SourceCodeGenerator but for the reasons I meansioned before it didn't provide the customization level I wanted (at least from my current impresssion) and it didn't generate source files I could tweak later. This is the reason why I created this app. I figured I am not the only one that faced this situation and could use this tool.

It is a JavaFX desktop application.

It uses the evolution scripts you created for your application (playframework, usually) to create case classes for tables. It can also generate a trait to encapsulate table mappings for the case classes as well as TableQuery variables. For now, everything is premitty much scala code generation. I anticipated that the architecture may be useful to support other languages. I don't need those currently so I didn't give that feature much attention. Nevertheless, it will be very interesting to see contributions that improves this project or add support for more languages.