Schema generation fails silently when @PrimaryColumn is ommitted

I have the following working entity:

export class AddressDbSchema implements AddressDTO {
    @PrimaryColumn()
    public _id?: string;
    @Column()
    public address1: string;
    @Column()
    public address2?: string;
    @Column()
    public city: string;
    @Column()
    public state: string;
    @Column()
    public zip: string;
    @Column()
    public country: string;
}

Here’s the calling code:

export class AddressRepositoryImplDb implements AddressRepository {
    private addressRepository: Repository<AddressDbSchema>;

    constructor() {
        this.connect().then(async connection => {
            this.addressRepository = connection.getRepository(AddressDbSchema);
        });
    }

    public async findAll(): Promise<Array<AddressDTO>> {
        return await this.addressRepository.find();
    }

    public async create(addressDTO: AddressDTO): Promise<AddressDTO> {
        return await this.addressRepository.persist(addressDTO);
    }

    public async update(addressDTO: AddressDTO): Promise<AddressDTO> {
        return await this.addressRepository.persist(addressDTO);
    }

    public async find(id: string): Promise<AddressDTO> {
        return await this.addressRepository.findOneById(id);
    }

    private connect(): Promise<Connection> {
        return createConnection({
            driver: {
                type: 'sqlite',
                storage: 'tmp/sqlitedb.db'
            },
            logging: {
                logQueries: true,
                logSchemaCreation: true
            },
            autoSchemaSync: true,
            entities: [
                AddressDbSchema
            ]
        });
    }
}

If I modify the entity to look like this, schema generation fails, but I get no error messages.

export class AddressDbSchema implements AddressDTO {
    @Column()
    public _id?: string;
    @Column()
    public address1: string;
    @Column()
    public address2?: string;
    @Column()
    public city: string;
    @Column()
    public state: string;
    @Column()
    public zip: string;
    @Column()
    public country: string;
}

[timwhit]

Thanks.

I updated the connection code and I’m getting the error now.

        this.connect().then(async connection => {
            this.addressRepository = connection.getRepository(AddressDbSchema);
        }).catch(err => logger.error('Cannot connect to database', err));

I would request that the examples on the README include this as I basically just copied the examples and none of them include catch.

[timwhit]

Thank you!