Database

Migrations

  • Micro migrations: Are the Laravel built-in migrations so please refer to the official docs and the artisan migrate:* commands.

  • Service migrations: When a service is generated with the lucid make:service command, it will contain a database directory that resemble /database at root.

app/Services/Chat/database
├── factories
├── migrations
└── seeders

 The examples in this document assume that our service name is Chat, please make sure to replace it with your service name instead.

Generate Service Migration

Signature lucid make:migration <migration> <service>

Example

lucid make:migration create_messages_table chat

Will generate app/Services/Chat/database/migrations/{date}_create_messages_table.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateMessagesTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('messages', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('messages');
    }
}

Run Service Migrations

Our migrations are recognized by Laravel due to them being loaded automatically in the service provider - ChatServiceProvider in this example.

Which makes it straight-forward to run them:

php artisan migrate

Disable Service Migrations

If your service doesn’t use a [separate] database (you may always still use Laravel’s default migrations) and you wish to clean it up from database stuff:

  • Remove app/Services/Chat/database directory
  • Remove the following snippet from ChatServiceProvider::boot in app/Services/Chat/Providers/ChatServiceProvider.php
    $this->loadMigrationsFrom([
        realpath(__DIR__ . '/../database/migrations')
    ]);
    

Factories

  1. Register service factories in composer

    • Under autoload.psr-4 add

    "App\\Services\\Chat\\Database\\Factories\\": "app/Services/Chat/database/factories/"

    So your composer.json should have a similar section as this:

    {
        "autoload": {
            "psr-4": {
                "App\\": "app/",
                "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
                "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/",
                "App\\Services\\Chat\\Database\\Factories\\": "app/Services/Chat/database/factories/"
            }
        }
    }
    
    • Run composer dump-autoload
  2. Create factory class (e.g. php artisan make:factory --model=Message)

  3. Move factory class from /database/factories to /app/Services/Chat/database/factories

  4. Change class namespace to App\Services\Chat\Database\Factories

  5. In your model class (here it’s Message): add newFactory() method. This is a method override that Laravel natively looks at before loading the default factory (see HasFactory trait)

    use App\Services\Chat\Database\Factories\MessageFactory;
    
    protected static function newFactory()
    {
        return app(MessageFactory::class);
    }
    
  6. Use the factory from the model as you would by default: Message::factory()->make()

Seeders

  1. Register service seeders in composer

    • Under autoload.psr-4 add the following

    "App\\Services\\Chat\\Database\\Seeders\\": "app/Services/Chat/database/seeders/"

    So your composer.json should have a similar section as this:

    {
        "autoload": {
            "psr-4": {
                "App\\": "app/",
                "Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
                "Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/",
                "App\\Services\\Chat\\Database\\Seeders\\": "app/Services/Chat/database/seeders/"
            }
        },
    }
    
    • Run composer dump-autoload
  2. Create seeder class (e.g. php artisan make:seeder MessageSeeder)

  3. Move seeder class from /database/seeders to /app/Services/Chat/database/seeders

  4. Change class namespace to App\Services\Chat\Database\Seeders

  5. Call MessageSeeder::class from /database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php

    use App\Services\Chat\Database\Seeders\MessageSeeder;
    
    public function run()
        {
            $this->call([
                MessageSeeder::class,
            ]);
        }
    
  6. Seed the database with php artisan db:seed