Prisma client cannot find datamodel path ("schema.prisma")

Bug description

In a monorepo environment, Prisma generates into the prisma folder at service root, but when the PrismaClient instance is created, it tries to read the schema file in random subdirectories.

That happened after upgrading Prisma to 3.x.

How to reproduce

Here is a repo with an example of project configuration:

https://github.com/0x77dev/prisma-datamodel-path

To reproduce:

yarn install
yarn reproduce

Expected behavior

Schema to be accessed at join(process.cwd(), 'prisma', 'schema.prisma').

Prisma information

Schema:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
  output   = "."
}

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

model User {
  id String @id @default(uuid()) @db.Uuid
}

PrismaClient

export const get = async (): Promise<PrismaClient> => {
    const { dbURL } = init()

    const { PrismaClient } = await import(join(process.cwd(), 'prisma'))

    const prisma = new PrismaClient({
      datasources: { db: { url: dbURL } },
      log:
        process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? [] : ['query', 'info', 'warn'],
      rejectOnNotFound,
    })

    await prisma.$connect()

    return prisma
}

Environment & setup

• OS: Ubuntu (docker image ubuntu:latest) (Linux aef42a236834 5.10.47-linuxkit #1 SMP Sat Jul 3 21:51:47 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) or macOS Monterey v12.0.1 (Darwin 3c7d0a05571a.lan 21.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.1.0: Wed Oct 13 17:33:23 PDT 2021; root:xnu-8019.41.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64)
• Database: PostgreSQL 12
• Node.js version: v16.13.0

Prisma Version

prisma                  : 3.5.0
@prisma/client          : 3.5.0
Current platform        : darwin
Query Engine (Node-API) : libquery-engine 78a5df6def6943431f4c022e1428dbc3e833cf8e (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/libquery_engine-darwin.dylib.node)
Migration Engine        : migration-engine-cli 78a5df6def6943431f4c022e1428dbc3e833cf8e (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/migration-engine-darwin)
Introspection Engine    : introspection-core 78a5df6def6943431f4c022e1428dbc3e833cf8e (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/introspection-engine-darwin)
Format Binary           : prisma-fmt 78a5df6def6943431f4c022e1428dbc3e833cf8e (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/prisma-fmt-darwin)
Default Engines Hash    : 78a5df6def6943431f4c022e1428dbc3e833cf8e
Studio                  : 0.439.0

[carlo23666]

If im not wrong you can add the schema.prisma path to your packaje.json, as “prisma”: {“schema”: “your/parth/schema.prisma”}, hope that works for you.

[0x77dev]

It is not possible in our case, we don’t want to generate prisma in node modules