Description

Typeorm custom repository module for Nest framework (node.js) with typeorm v0.3+

Installation

$ npm i nestjs-typeorm-custom-repository
$ npm i @nestjs/typeorm typeorm
#or
$ yarn add nestjs-typeorm-custom-repository
$ yarn add @nestjs/typeorm typeorm

Note: typeorm v0.3+ and @nestjs/typeorm v8.1.0+

Usage

Follow the example below:

Suppose we have two database connections for one database

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { TypeOrmModule } from '@nestjs/typeorm';

import { Photo } from './photo/photo.entity';

@Module({
  imports: [
    // default connection
    TypeOrmModule.forRoot({
      type: 'mysql',
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 3306,
      entities: [Photo],
	  ...
    }),
    // and another connection with named `connection_2`
    TypeOrmModule.forRoot({
      name: 'connection_2',
      type: 'mysql',
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 3306,
      entities: [Photo],
	  ...
    }),
  ],
})
export class AppModule {}

This CustomPhotoRepository below uses the @EntityRepository() decorator to mark that it's a custom repository for the Photo entity.

photo.repository.ts

import { EntityRepository } from 'nestjs-typeorm-custom-repository';
import { Repository } from 'typeorm';

import { Photo } from './photo.entity';

@EntityRepository(Photo)
export class CustomPhotoRepository extends Repository<Photo> {}

photo.module.ts

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { CustomRepositoryModule } from 'nestjs-typeorm-custom-repository';

import { CustomPhotoRepository } from './photo.repository';
import { PhotoService } from './photo.service';

@Module({
  imports: [
    CustomRepositoryModule.forFeature([CustomPhotoRepository]),
    CustomRepositoryModule.forFeature([CustomPhotoRepository], 'connection_2'),
  ],
  providers: [PhotoService],
})
export class PhotoModule {}

This module uses the forFeature() method to define which repositories are registered in the current scope. With that in place, we can inject the PhotoRepository into the PhotoService using the @InjectCustomRepository() decorator. Or if this decorator is not used then the repositories will be injected by default connection:

photo.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { InjectCustomRepository } from 'nestjs-typeorm-custom-repository';

import { Photo } from './photo.entity';
import { CustomPhotoRepository } from './photo.repository';

@Injectable()
export class PhotoService {
  constructor(
    private readonly customPhotoRepository: CustomPhotoRepository,
    @InjectCustomRepository(CustomPhotoRepository, 'connection_2')
    private readonly customPhotoRepository2: CustomPhotoRepository,
  ) {}

  ...
}

License

MIT licensed.