Merge pull request #2815 from yiisoft/ar-default-values

docs/guide/active-record.md

@@ -198,6 +198,15 @@ Customer::updateAllCounters(['age' => 1]);
 > Info: The `save()` method will either perform an `INSERT` or `UPDATE` SQL statement, depending
   on whether the ActiveRecord being saved is new or not by checking `ActiveRecord::isNewRecord`.
 
+In order to load default values from database schema you may call `loadDefaultValues()` method:
+
+```php
+$customer = new Customer();
+$customer->loadDefaultValues();
+$cusomer->name = 'Alexander';
+$customer->save();
+```
+
 
 Data Input and Validation
 -------------------------

framework/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Enh #2661: Added boolean column type support for SQLite (qiangxue)
 - Enh #2670: Changed `console\Controller::globalOptions()` to `options($actionId)` to (make it possible to) differentiate options per action (hqx)
 - Enh #2714: Added support for formatting time intervals relative to the current time with `yii\base\Formatter` (drenty)
+- Enh #2726: Added `yii\db\ActiveRecord::loadDefaultValues()` that fills default values from DB schema (samdark)
 - Enh #2729: Added `FilterValidator::skipOnArray` so that filters like `trim` will not fail for array inputs (qiangxue)
 - Enh #2735: Added support for `DateTimeInterface` in `Formatter` (ivokund)
 - Enh #2756: Added support for injecting custom `isEmpty` check for all validators (qiangxue)

framework/db/ActiveRecord.php

@@ -94,6 +94,21 @@ class ActiveRecord extends BaseActiveRecord
     const OP_ALL = 0x07;
 
     /**
+     * Loads default values from database table schema
+     *
+     * @return static model instance
+     */
+    public function loadDefaultValues()
+    {
+        foreach ($this->getTableSchema()->columns as $column) {
+            if ($column->defaultValue) {
+                $this->{$column->name} = $column->defaultValue;
+            }
+        }
+        return $this;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Returns the database connection used by this AR class.
      * By default, the "db" application component is used as the database connection.
      * You may override this method if you want to use a different database connection.

tests/unit/data/ar/Type.php

+<?php
+
+namespace yiiunit\data\ar;
+
+/**
+ * Model representing tbl_type table
+ *
+ * @property int $int_col
+ * @property int $int_col2 DEFAULT 1
+ * @property string $char_col
+ * @property string $char_col2 DEFAULT 'something'
+ * @property string $char_col3
+ * @property float $float_col
+ * @property float $float_col2 DEFAULT '1.23'
+ * @property string $blob_col
+ * @property float $numeric_col DEFAULT '33.22'
+ * @property string $time DEFAULT '2002-01-01 00:00:00'
+ * @property boolean $bool_col
+ * @property boolean $bool_col2 DEFAULT 1
+ */
+class Type extends ActiveRecord
+{
+    /**
+     * @inheritdoc
+     */
+    public static function tableName()
+    {
+        return 'tbl_type';
+    }
+}
+ 
\ No newline at end of file

tests/unit/framework/db/ActiveRecordTest.php

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use yiiunit\data\ar\OrderItem;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Order;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Item;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Profile;
+use yiiunit\data\ar\Type;
 use yiiunit\framework\ar\ActiveRecordTestTrait;
 
 /**
@@ -486,4 +487,16 @@ class ActiveRecordTest extends DatabaseTestCase
         $this->assertTrue($orders[1]['customer2']['orders2'][0]['id'] === $orders[0]['id']);
         $this->assertTrue($orders[1]['customer2']['orders2'][1]['id'] === $orders[1]['id']);
     }
+
+    public function testDefaultValues()
+    {
+        $model = new Type();
+        $model->loadDefaultValues();
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $model->int_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals('something', $model->char_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals(1.23, $model->float_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals(33.22, $model->numeric_col);
+        $this->assertEquals('2002-01-01 00:00:00', $model->time);
+        $this->assertEquals(true, $model->bool_col2);
+    }
 }