FMMigration

FMMigration is a schema migration for SQLite FMDB library written in Objective-C

Installation

FMMigration depends on FMDB library to work. So first, configure FMDB library into your Xcode project.

After that, copy the files in FMMigration folder into your project.

You're ready to go!

Usage

To do a schema migration you need to instantiate a FMMigrationManager and setup a list of migrations. You should do this at the beginning of your application to ensure that the database will be updated to perform queries/statements properly.

Each element in the list of migrations needs to be an instance of FMMigration.

To execute the schema migration process you just call migrateWithMigrations method from FMMigrationManager.

Here is an example:

NSString *databasePath = @"database.sqlite";
FMMigrationManager *migration = [[FMMigrationManager alloc] initWithDatabasePath:databasePath];
NSArray *migrations = @[
						[CreateTableAnimalMigration new],
						];
[migration migrateWithMigrations:migrations];

Notice that CreateTableAnimalMigration is a subclass of FMMigration.

To facilitate some common database operations, FMMigrationManager already has some pre-defined operations to create, drop or rename tables or columns.

Here are some examples:

NSString *databasePath = @"database.sqlite";
FMMigrationManager *migration = [[FMMigrationManager alloc] initWithDatabasePath:databasePath];
NSArray *migrations = @[
						[migration createTable:@"person" primaryKey:@"id"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"name" type:@"text" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"age" type:@"integer" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"favorite" type:@"text" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration renameColumn:@"favorite" to:@"favorite_color" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration dropColumn:@"favorite_color" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration createTable:@"extra_table" primaryKey:@"id"],
                        [migration dropTable:@"extra_table"],
                        ];
[migration migrateWithMigrations:migrations];

Maybe you want to perfom some custom query. For this case you can use executeSQL from FMMigrationManager.

Like this:

NSString *databasePath = @"database.sqlite";
FMMigrationManager *migration = [[FMMigrationManager alloc] initWithDatabasePath:databasePath];
NSArray *migrations = @[
						[migration createTable:@"person" primaryKey:@"id"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"name" type:@"text" forTable:@"person"],
						[migration executeSQL:@"INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('John')"],
						];
[migration migrateWithMigrations:migrations];

If you want to perform custom queries without the need to create a new subclass of FMMigration you can use migrationWithUp or migrationWithUp:down from FMMigration.

Here is an example:

NSString *databasePath = @"database.sqlite";
FMMigrationManager *migration = [[FMMigrationManager alloc] initWithDatabasePath:databasePath];
NSArray *migrations = @[
						[migration createTable:@"person" primaryKey:@"id"],
                        [migration createTable:@"food" primaryKey:@"id"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"name" type:@"text" forTable:@"person"],
                        [migration addColumn:@"name" type:@"text" forTable:@"food"],
                        [FMMigration migrationWithUp:^BOOL (FMDatabase *database) {
                            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
                                if (![database executeUpdate:@"INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES (?)", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Person %d", i + 1]]) {
                                    return NO;
                                }

                                if (![database executeUpdate:@"INSERT INTO food (name) VALUES (?)", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Food %d", i + 1]]) {
                                    return NO;
                                }
                            }

                            return YES;
                        }],
                        ];
[migration migrateWithMigrations:migrations];

Finally, if you want to organize your schema migrations in classes, you need to create a subclass of FMMigration and override upgradeWithDatabase and downgradeWithDatabase for up and down operations, respectively.

Here is an example:

@implementation CreateTableAnimalMigration

- (BOOL)upgradeWithDatabase:(FMDatabase *)database
{
    NSString *sql = @"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS animal (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, name text)";

    if (![database executeUpdate:sql]) {
        return NO;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        if (![database executeUpdate:@"INSERT INTO animal (name) VALUES (?)", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Animal %d", i + 1]]) {
            return NO;
        }
    }

    return YES;
}

- (BOOL)downgradeWithDatabase:(FMDatabase *)database
{
    return [database executeUpdate:@"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS animal"];
}

@end

License

The license for FMMigration is contained in the license file