Improvement suggestion: ask table name while making an entity

[volodkaly]

Hello, Dear Symfony team,

Let me propose a small improvement.
When running:

php bin/console make:entity User

the generated entity automatically uses the entity name as the table name (user).
However, in real-world projects table naming conventions often differ:
pluralized tables (users)
prefixed tables (app_user)
avoiding reserved SQL keywords (e.g. user in MySQL)
At the moment, developers must manually edit the generated entity and add:
#[ORM\Table(name: 'users')]

Proposal:
Add an optional interactive prompt during make:entity:
Table name (default: user):
Pressing Enter preserves current behavior: default lowercase entity name is prompted.

Best regards,
Vladimir Lasac

CC: @weaverryan @tucksaun @kbond @Nyholm

[sadikoff]

Hey @volodkaly,

Honestly I don't see any big issue with it, because there are not so many reserved words, and it's not a very big deal to open created file and tweak table name.

However it can be useful to have an prompt with default generated value and also an option to set your own table name in such cases and possibly a configuration option to use some prefix for entity creation.

Anyways it's an open source world any good idea can be added via pull request :)

Cheers!

[volodkaly]

Hey @volodkaly,

Honestly I don't see any big issue with it, because there are not so many reserved words, and it's not a very big deal to open created file and tweak table name.

However it can be useful to have an prompt with default generated value and also an option to set your own table name in such cases and possibly a configuration option to use some prefix for entity creation.

Anyways it's an open source world any good idea can be added via pull request :)

Cheers!

I mean, yes, probably not a big deal to search for each Entity, manually edit it and make additional migrations.
But since it is supposed to be user-friendly and automated, then those steps are making it half-manual and the automation idea seems incomplete.