Is there a straight-forward way of doing an ORM roundtrip workflow in Grails 3+?

Question

For the last few years I have been a Symfony developer and one of the things I enjoy the most is the fact that I don't have to write/maintain entities by hand.

Through Doctrine (the integrated ORM) I can extract the table metadata and relations through

php app/console doctrine:mapping:import SomeBundle yaml

And then I can generate the ORM entity classes

php app/console generate:doctrine:entities SomeBundle

And I'm friggin' done.

Need to migrate?, no problem. Use this command to create a migration:

doctrine:migrations:diff

And the following to migrate to it:

doctrine:migrations:migrate

For Grails, it seems that there is no straight forward way, unless I go and download the Hibernate tools and a tool like Liquibase.

There seem to be a couple of plugins that did this, but the one for reverse engineering from a database does not seem supported for Grails 3 (db-reverse-engineer) and the one for migrations I tried, but does not seem stable enough (database-migration).

Am I just looking in the wrong place?, if not, how do you as a professional Grails developer solve these needs?

Answer 1

No there is not a straight forward way to make a "round-trip" as you describe in Grails 3.x.

Most plugins aren't going to be 3.x ready yet. 3.x is still quite new.

That said, the reverse engineering plugin isn't designed to be a fully automated one-shot handles everything type of plugin. It's suppose to be a running start that you take the last bit by hand.

The migration plugin on the other hand is fully production ready and very stable in 2.x.