how to create plugin from current state

[SledgehammerPL]

I have a plugin in stable state. But I made lots of errors during creation so there is lots of wrong updates. And even worse, before I understand the plugin philosophy I made changes in table structure not in builder. So now I want to move plugin from development into testing - but plugin crashes during installation. Of course I can fix updates (almost 200 updates to check!) but this is plan B. Is there a method to prepare initial table creation based on current database? I know that I won't be able to go backafter this - but it is ok. Let's assume this is fork. No look back :D

[bennothommo]

@SledgehammerPL there isn't an automated way of doing this yet. You'd have to hand-craft a migration based on the current table schema.

I believe there is a create:migration Artisan command being worked on to make it automatic.

[SledgehammerPL]

./artisan create:migration

Not enough arguments (missing: "plugin, name").

(I'm not sure what is name - my database tables begins with party_structure_

I tried:

./artisan create:migration party structure
create:migration has not been implemented yet

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[bennothommo]

@SledgehammerPL the command isn't ready yet. It will throw an error even if you fill in the command correctly.

[faselunare]

my 2 cents

if you have made changes outside the builder i think you need to check all the updates
in the other case, the way i use,
for each database update

• go trough the update folder
• open the update_xxxxx_file.php
• copy the line (for example if i add a fields in the table...)
• paste this line in the create_xxxxx_file.php for this table
• remove the update_xxxxx_file.php
• update the version.yaml by removing the line with the update_xxxxxfile.php

this is valid when adding a fields
if otherwise, you remove the field just delete the line in the create_xxxxxxx_file.php
and update the version.yaml file