Error after extending User type and migration generation

[kfrajtak]

Hi,

I have extended the User entity as described here:

import { Entity, Column } from "typeorm";
import { User as AccountsUser } from "@accounts/typeorm";

@Entity()
export class User extends AccountsUser {
  @Column() firstName: string;
  @Column() lastName: string;
  @Column({ type: "blob" }) profileImage: string;
}

Then I tried to generate migrations using with

npm run typeorm migration:generate -- -n 20190315.js

where typeorm is defined in package.json as follows

"typeorm": "ts-node -r tsconfig-paths/register ./node_modules/typeorm/cli.js"

and got this error

Error: Entity metadata for User#allServices was not found. Check if you specified a correct entity object and if it's connected in the connection options.

Can you help me with this problem?

Thank you,
Karel

[chewnoill]

I think you need still to tell typeorm where Account's entity definitions are, ie:

ormconfig.json:

...
   "entities": [
     "node_modules/@accounts/typeorm/lib/entity/*.js",
     "src/models/**/*.ts"
   ],
...

Then you can extend the User class as described in the documentation:

import { Entity, Column} from "typeorm";
import { User as AccountsUser } from "@accounts/typeorm";

@Entity()
export class User extends AccountsUser {
    @Column()
    public foo: string;
}

note the migration will generate, user_session, user_email, and user_service tables at the same time, which I assume are required, and the root of this problem.

As long as you don't mind naming your user table user this approach should work(?).