Drizzle Team•2mo ago

Problem - Create enums on a file or folder outside of the table

I have a table, and I wanted to test creating enums in a separate folder to share them across multiple tables. The issue was that when I ran drizzle-kit push, I got the following error:

error: type "reservation_status" does not exist

error: type "reservation_status" does not exist

Do we have an explanation for this? I suspect that the table we’re trying to create is instantiated before the enum is created, which is why it’s not being found.

7 Replies

⚡Z.E.U.S⚡•2mo ago

Hey @Cristian Sotomayor! Have you exported this enum from your main schema entry point?

Cristian SotomayorOP•2mo ago

how I can do that ? for example I have an schemas folder and an enum folder. Right now I'm just using the enum inside the schemas folder and everything works as expected This is my current drizzle.config.ts file

Cristian SotomayorOP•2mo ago

but I would like to just use the enum from the enum folder and import it on the schemas files.

⚡Z.E.U.S⚡•2mo ago

Is your enums folder not inside the schemas folder? If so, you should move it there and use the schemas/**/*.ts path. Or use an array of paths for the schemas property in drizzle.config.ts.

Cristian SotomayorOP•2mo ago

yesss it's outside. Currently is:

src/
|-schemas/
|-enums/

src/
|-schemas/
|-enums/

So your sugestion is to use something like this:

src/
|-schemas/
  |- enums/
    |- enum1.ts
  |- table.ts
  |- table2.ts

src/
|-schemas/
  |- enums/
    |- enum1.ts
  |- table.ts
  |- table2.ts

I would like to add the enums on the schemas path. Like an array

Cristian SotomayorOP•2mo ago

I was writing the message when I saw your answer, so I was looking into the docs for that particular prop and I think I find out what I needed https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/drizzle-config-file#schema With that examples I can do something like:

import { defineConfig } from "drizzle-kit";
export default defineConfig({
  schema: "./src/**/schema.ts",
  //or
  schema: ["./src/schemas/index.ts", "./src/enum/index.ts"]
});

import { defineConfig } from "drizzle-kit";
export default defineConfig({
  schema: "./src/**/schema.ts",
  //or
  schema: ["./src/schemas/index.ts", "./src/enum/index.ts"]
});

I'm going to try that

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Cristian SotomayorOP•2mo ago

That seems to be the best option for now — thanks for the help 🙌 Once I know what to check, it’s much easier to figure things out.

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