Setup with MySQL

Table of Contents

  1. Quick Start
  2. Options
    1. host
    2. port
    3. user
    4. password
    5. database
    6. appName
    7. charset
    8. connectionLimit
    9. idleTimeout
    10. stringifyObjects

Quick Start

MySQL, or any of its incarnations, is the default dialect Leoric supports, which can be setup easily as follows:

const Realm = require('leoric');
const realm = new Realm({
  host: 'localhost',
  user: 'test',
  database: 'test',
  models: 'app/models',
});
await realm.connect();

Leoric uses mysqljs/mysql as the default client to access MySQL database, which should be added as dependency along with leoric itself:

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cf91c34..7ae144d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
+    "leoric": "^1.10.0",
+    "mysql": "^2.18.1",

Options

host

The hostname of the database you are connecting to. (Default: localhost)

port

The port number to connect to. (Default: 3306)

user

The MySQL user to authenticate as.

password

The password of the MySQL user to authenticate.

database

appName

In PolarDB, which is a MySQL compliant cloud based database formerly known as TDDL, there is a bit of confusion in database names. The name used to route the tables in database is called appName, which is also the one we use to config database of the MySQL client.

But the table_schema stored in information_schema.columns is another value. For example, if your database name is called foo in your local MySQL instance, when migrated to PolarDB it could be foo in information_schema.columns.table_schema and FOO_APP as the database:

const realm = new Realm({
  host: 'polardb.host',
  user: 'FOO_APP',
  appName: 'FOO_APP',
  database: 'foo',
});

This option won’t be necessary unless PolarDB is used.

charset

The charset for the connection. This is called “collation” in the SQL-level of MySQL (like utf8_general_ci). If a SQL-level charset is specified (like utf8mb4) then the default collation for that charset is used. (Default: 'UTF8_GENERAL_CI')

connectionLimit

The default pool provided by the client is used, which means all pool options should be available. connectionLimit is the one whitelisted for now, more would be allowed in the future.

The option name explains itself, the pool size can be customized with this option, which is default to 10.

idleTimeout

IMHO, this option should be available through the pool options we mentioned above but it actually doesn’t, which is a pity.

Please subscribe #148 for future updates.

stringifyObjects

When object is accidentally passed as the query value to MySQL client, the value will be formatted into expressions by default. Take following query for example:

await Post.where({ name: { id: 1, name: 'Untitled' } });

which generates following SQL (and makes no sense):

SELECT * FROM `articles` WHERE `name` = `id` = 1 AND `name` = `Untitled`;

To mitigate this problem, we can turn on stringifyObjects to make sure object will be stringified if accidentally passed to query.

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