Make:entity - Allow to update fields in an existing Entity

[fdiedler]

Hi,

Is it possible to update fields in an existing Entity with make:entity ? I propose to add this feature that seems very useful when you want to edit the type of a fields or its name.

Thanks,

[ppodgorskicrido]

Hi, I vote in favour. That's a good idea. You should add label feature to this issue

[dsentker]

I believe this hasn't been implemented yet because it has too many side effects:

• Changing the name of the property could affect other implementations in other classes
• If you change the relation, the relation of the inverse entity would also change, which in turn affects other classes
• If you change the data type of a property, a migration for that could be difficult to create if the old and the new data type are not compatible to each other (e.g. simple_array to string)

[FrozenCell239]

What if we do it manually anyway ? Personnally, I just need to modify the length of a varchar property as I forgot that the content of that one property will hashed using SHA algorythm.