CHANGELOG.md

v2.3 - v2.4 (Important read if upgrading from previous versions)

• The create:resources command have been renamed to create:scaffold.
• The --fields option was added to the create:scaffold to allow you to scaffold everything using a single command. So you can use the create:scaffold command to create resource-file and scaffold all at the same time. For example, php artisan create:scaffold Test --fields=id,first_field,second_field. The previous command will first create the resource-file before it create your other resources. The --fields option should only be used one time only to create the resource-file not every time.
• The default value of the option controller-extends in the create:controller command was changed from Http\Controllers\Controller to default-controller.
• A new create:api-controller command was created to create API ready controllers.
• The create_move_file_method option in the config have been removed. Now simply if you have moveFile method defined in the controller base class, generating the method will be skipped. However, if the method does not extsts, it will be generated.
• Multiple new stubs have been added to the default templates. Any stub name that starts with api- have been added.
• The route.stub file have been modified.
• The following two properties is-api-visible and api-key were added to the Field properties to give you control on which field should be visile to the api output and what should it be called incase you want to give it a name other that what is in the database.
• The create:routes command now has a new option without-route-clause which will create the routes without there clause for the id. It may be used when the primary key is not an integer. Additionally, the options --for-api and --api-version have been added to add support for created api-based routes.
• added command to create api-resource with/without collection when using Laravel 5.5+.
• The create:api-scaffold command have been added to allow you to create resources for the api.
• The user is no longer required to publish the default templates. This is much better step to prevent upgrade braking when the template are updated during a patch release. The user should publish templates only if he/she want to modify it and rename it. IMPORTANT Delete existing default and default-collective templates from the folders from the default publish path of your project.
• The user no longer have to publish resource to install the package! One line only is required to install the package on laravel 5.5+ (i.e, composer require crestapps/laravel-code-generator --dev)
• IMPORTANT: delete the the codegenerator.php file from your config folder, then rename the codegenerator_custom.php file to laravel-code-generator.php. Alternatively, you can delete both codegenerator.php and codegenerator_custom.php
• Added --model-extends option to the create:model command to allow the use to extend a custom default base class.

v2.2.7

• Added capability to lock down resource from with in the resource file. This is helpful if you make code changes to a file and you want the code generator to protect the file from accidentally overriding it when using --force
• When creating resources from existing database, the table name is stored in the resource-file. This step will save you from having to provide the table name via command line each time you create model.

v2.2.0 - v2.2.6

Upgrade

• If you are upgrading from v2.0, v2.1, v2.2, v2.3 to v2.4 or v2.5 make sure you publish the vendor resource. There are some updates to the config file.
• If you are upgrading from v2.0, v2.1 or v2.2 to v2.3 make sure you publish the vendor resource. There are some updates to the config file.
• If you are upgrading from v2.0 or v2.1 to v2.2 make sure you publish the vendor resource. There are some changes to the templates that required to be updated.
• If you are upgrading any version prior v2.2 follow the upgrate instruction on https://crestapps.com/laravel-code-generator/docs/2.2#upgrade-guide

Options Changes

• The --fields-file option in all command have been renamed to --resource-file since that file is no longer just a fields-file.
• This completely drop support for fields from raw string. We relay heavy on the JSON-based resource-file. The resource-file allows you to define any relations, indexes and fields all at once.
• The --lang-file-name options have been changed to --language-filename any where it exists
• The --without-migration option with create:resources command has been reversed. It is now --with-migration and should only be passed when you need a new migration created.
• The options --names in the resource-file:create, resource-file:append, or resource-file:reduce has been renamed to --fields.
• --indexes and --relations have been added to the following commands resource-file:create, resource-file:append, or resource-file:reduce to allow you to interact with the resource-file freely.
• The options --fields, --indexes and --relations for the resource-file:create, resource-file:append, or resource-file:reduce commands accept complex string to allow you to pass more values to add to the resource-file.
• Added --without-languages, --without-controller, --without-form-request, --without-views and without-model options to the create:resources command.

New Features

• Added Smart migrations! smart migrations will keep trak of all your migration and determine the next migration based on the changes made to your resource files. So when you add a field after the table is migrated, the system will generate an alter migration to allow you to add the new field to the database.
• Ability to organize the migration using one folder per table.
• The CodeGenerator is now able to automatically create hasOne and hasMany relations when creating resource-file from existing database using php artisan resource-file:from-database command
• A new file codegenerator_custom.php to allow you to store all of your custom configuration was added.
• Added the ability to delete already uploaded file in edit mode.
• The CodeGenerator allows you to add compound index in the resource-file directly to give you the ability to reuse the setting in the future.
• The CodeGenerator allows you to add any type of relation in the resource-file directly to give you the ability to reuse the setting in the future.
• New configuration option was added (i.e. irregular_plurals) to allow you to define a non-english singular to plural words. This is helpfull if your coding using a non-english language like Spanish or Frensh. For more info go to CrestApps#25
• Added plural_names_for config option to allow the user to set whether to create the resource in a plural or singular version.
• Added controller_name_postfix config option to allow the user to change the controller post-fix or even remove it altogether.
• Added form_request_name_postfix config option to allow the user to change the form-request post-fix or even remove it altogether.
• You can use Laravel 5.5 custom validation rule directly in the validations string.
• Added create_move_file_method config option to allow the user to chose not to create moveFile method on every CRUD when file-upload is required.

Clean up

• The codegenerator-templates and codegenerate-files folder have been moved from /resources to /resources/laravel-code-generator by default. Also, the folder codegenerator-templates was renamed to templates and the codegenerator-files to sources. Finally, a new folder (i.e system) will be generated when needed by the system in /resources/laravel-code-generator.

Template Changes

• A new stub was added controller-getdata-method-5.5.stub to allow you to simplify your validation when using Laravel 5.5! This will make your code much cleaner and simpler thanks to the new Laravel 5.5 validation.
• The stub controller-getdata-method.stub has a slight change to increase the security of the generate code. instead of using $request->all() to get all the data from the request, we do $request->only([...]) to only get the fields that should be needed only!
• The variable [% use_auth_namespace %] in the form-request.stub file has been renamed to [% use_command_placeholder %].
• New template file have been added controller-getdata-method-5.5.stub
• New template file have been added controller-upload-method-5.3.stub to improve the syntax in the moveFile() method for Laravel 5.3+.
• The content of the form-file-field.blade.stub changed to show the uploaded filename.
• The content of the layout.stub and layout-with-validation.stub were updated to show the file name for uploaded files.
• The content of the schema-up.stub changed to allow for alter operation.
• The stub schema-down.stub was renamed to migration-schema-down.stub.
• The stub schema-up.stub was renamed to migration-schema-up.stub.
• The edit.blade.stub has been modified
• The create.blade.stub has been modified

Command Changes

The following command have been renamed

• The command create:fields-file has been renamed to resource-file:from-database
• The command fields-file:create has been renamed to resource-file:create
• The command fields-file:delete has been renamed to resource-file:delete
• The command fields-file:append has been renamed to resource-file:append
• The command fields-file:reduce has been renamed to resource-file:reduce
• The following commands were added php artisan migrate-all, php artisan migrate:rollback-all, php artisan migrate:reset-all, php artisan migrate:refresh-all and php artisan migrate:status-all which should help you when chosing to turn on the organize_migration options

Eliminated Options

The following options have been removed from all commands

• --fields
• --fillable
• --relationships
• --indexes
• --foreign-keys