Entity Generator

To generate entities from existing database schema, you can use EntityGenerator helper.

You can use it via CLI:

npx mikro-orm generate-entities --dump  # Dumps all generated entitiesnpx mikro-orm generate-entities --save --path=./my-entities  # Saves entities into given directory

Or you can create simple script where you initialize MikroORM like this:

./generate-entities.ts

import { MikroORM } from '@mikro-orm/core';
(async () => {  const orm = await MikroORM.init({    discovery: {      // we need to disable validation for no entities       warnWhenNoEntities: false,    },    dbName: 'your-db-name',    // ...  });  const generator = orm.getEntityGenerator();  const dump = await generator.generate({     save: true,    baseDir: process.cwd() + '/my-entities',  });  console.log(dump);  await orm.close(true);})();

Then run this script via ts-node (or compile it to plain JS and use node):

$ ts-node generate-entities

Current limitations

• many to many relations are not supported, pivot table will be represented as separate entity
• in mysql, tinyint columns will be defined as boolean properties