Command line tools for drift

Usage

If your app depends on drift_dev, you're ready to use the CLI tool. In this article, we'll use pub run ... to start the tool. If you're using Flutter, you need to run flutter pub run .... In either case, the tool should be run from the same folder where you keep your pubspec.yaml.

Analyze

Runs drift's analyzer and linter across all .drift files in your project.

$ dart run drift_dev analyze

WARNING: For file test/data/tables/tables.drift:
WARNING: line 38, column 28: This table has columns without default values, so defaults can't be used for insert.
   ╷
38 │ defaultConfig: INSERT INTO config DEFAULT VALUES;
   │                            ^^^^^^
   ╵
INFO: Found 1 errors or problems

Exits with error code 1 if any error was found.

Identify databases

This is more of a test command to verify that drift's analyzer is working correctly. It will identify all databases or daos defined in your project.

$ dart run drift_dev identify-databases

Starting to scan in /tmp/example/ ...
INFO: example/example.dart has drift databases or daos: Database
INFO: lib/src/data/database.dart has drift databases or daos: AppDatabase
INFO: test/fake_db.dart has drift databases or daos: TodoDb, SomeDao

Schema tools

Export

This subcommand expects two paths, a Dart file and a target. The Dart file should contain exactly one class annotated with @DriftDatabase. Running the following command will export the database schema to json.

$ dart run drift_dev schema dump path/to/databases.dart schema.json

The generated file (schema.json in this case) contains information about all

• tables, including detailed information about columns
• triggers
• indices
• @create-queries from included drift files
• dependencies thereof

Exporting a schema can be used to generate test code for your schema migrations. For details, see the guide.