PHP DB Migration Validator
Introduction
In modern PHP frameworks such as Symfony and Laravel, migrations usually have up
and down
methods. In up
method of migration definition you had to write code which is called only on running migration forward and in down
— the code which is called only on rolling migration back. It is standard practice to make database migrations irreversible. Migrations should be backward compatible and only go forward.
In Laravel, a missing or empty down
method does not prevent rollback migration on execution of php artisan migrate:rollback
CLI command. The state of the database will not change, but the migration will be removed from the registry of applied migrations, and the next execution of php artisan migrate
will call the up
method again. To prevent this behavior, all migrations should have down
method that will throw an Exception, nothing more.
PHP DB Migration Validator checks whether all migration files meet this requirement. You can add it to the server's git hooks to prevent migration rollback, or add validation step to CI.
Installation
Pull in the package through Composer.
php composer require antonkomarev/php-db-migration-validator
Usage
Validate migrations are irreversible
Validate file
php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible migrations/file.php
Validate many files
php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible migrations/file.php migrations/file2.php
Validate many files by wildcard
php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible migrations/2022_*
Validate files in directory
php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible migrations/
Validate files in many directories
php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible app/migrations/ vendor/migrations/
CI automation
Automating the validation of all contributions to the repository as part of the Continuous Integration is one of the possible ways to use this tool.
GitHub Action
Create file .github/workflows/db-migration-validation.yaml
in the application repository.
name: DB Migration Validation
on:
push:
jobs:
db-migration-validation:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
with:
php-version: 8.1
extensions: tokenizer
coverage: none
- name: Install PHP DB Migration Validator dependency
run: composer global require antonkomarev/php-db-migration-validator --no-interaction
- name: Ensure all database migrations are irreversible
run: php-db-migration-validator --rule=irreversible ./database/migrations
Command usage instructions
$ php vendor/bin/php-db-migration-validator --help
PHP DB Migration Validator
--------------------------
by Anton Komarev <[email protected]>
Usage: php-db-migration-validator --rule=<rule> <path>
The following commands are available:
help Shows this usage instructions.
Options:
--rules=<rule> Validates the database migration(s) in the specified <path>.
Exits with code 1 on validation errors, 2 on other errors and 0 on success.
Available rules (at least one should be specified):
- irreversible — ensure if migration file has `down` method and this method throws an Exception.
License
PHP DB Migration Validator
package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license by Anton Komarev.
Support the project
If you'd like to support the development of PHP DB Migration Validator, then please consider sponsoring me. Thanks so much!
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