Columns with the type "enum" are not supported in the migration API

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TypeORM version:

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Steps to reproduce or a small repository showing the problem:

When writing migrations by hand using the migration API to create a new table that has an enum column 3 things happen that shouldn’t:

• The generated SQL does not sets the column’s type to enum.
• Worse, it sets the column’s type to “[Tablename]_[column]_enum”.
• The “enum” TableColumnOptions parameter gets ignored.

A simple example:

// == The entity

export enum RatingType {
  low = 'bad',
  neutral = 'neutral',
  good = 'good'
}

@Entity({ name: 'Ratings' })
export default class Rating extends BaseEntity {
  @PrimaryGeneratedColumn('uuid')
  id: string

  @Column({ type: 'enum', enum: RatingType })
  rating: RatingType
}

// == The migration

import { MigrationInterface, QueryRunner, Table } from 'typeorm'

export class CreateRatings1569818629816 implements MigrationInterface {
  private ratingsTable = new Table({
    name: 'Ratings',
    columns: [
      {
        name: 'id',
        type: 'uuid',
        isPrimary: true,
        isGenerated: true,
        generationStrategy: 'uuid',
      },
      {
        name: 'rating',
        type: 'enum',
        enum: ['bad', 'neutral', 'good'],
        isNullable: true
      }
    ],
  })

  async up(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
    await queryRunner.createTable(this.ratingsTable, true)
  }

  async down(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
    await queryRunner.dropTable(this.ratingsTable)
  }
}

The generated SQL looks like this:

CREATE TABLE "Ratings" (
  "id" uuid NOT NULL DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4(),
  "rating" "Ratings_rating_enum",
  CONSTRAINT "PK_ee6436ff188c9bb00cc70fc447a" PRIMARY KEY ("id")
)

[ralmarri12]

how to set default value for enum

this worked with me

{
    name: 'status',
    type: 'enum',
    enum: ['active', 'inactive', 'paused'],
    enumName: 'statusEnum',
    default: '"inactive"'
}

[bigLucas]

how to set default value for enum

this worked with me

{
    name: 'status',
    type: 'enum',
    enum: ['active', 'inactive', 'paused'],
    enumName: 'statusEnum',
    default: '"inactive"'
}

Almost the same solution, but here with typeorm 0.2.30 and Postgres as database, I fixed with this:

// enum
enum NiceEnum {
    FOO: 'FOO',
    BAR: 'BAR',
}
// column
{
    name: 'status',
    type: 'enum',
    enum: [NiceEnum.FOO, NiceEnum.BAR],
    enumName: 'statusEnum',
    default: `'${NiceEnum.FOO}'` // here, I used single quotes
}