Change column type to tinyInteger - php

Question

Trying to change data column type to tinyInteger in a Laravel 5.2 migration:
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class AlterTableNameTableChangeNotificationSentTinyint extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::table('table_name', function ($table) {
$table->tinyInteger('column_name')->default(0)->change();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* #return void
*/
public function down()
{
//
}
}
I'm getting an error:
Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException]
Unknown column type "tinyinteger" requested. Any Doctrine type that you use has to be registered with \Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type::addType(). You can get a list of all the known types wit
h \Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type::getTypesMap(). If this error occurs during database introspection then you might have forgot to register all database types for a Doctrine Type. Use Abstrac
tPlatform#registerDoctrineTypeMapping() or have your custom types implement Type#getMappedDatabaseTypes(). If the type name is empty you might have a problem with the cache or forgot so
me mapping information.
Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

Indeed Doctrine Dbal does not support tinyint you can read from their doc here
Unfortunately as well, laravel stated that tinyint cannot be changed. Check here
I need someone to prove this as wrong, because I had to use smallInteger because of this issue for one of my projects. I am thinking maybe boolean() might be the solution. I have not tried this though.

Answer 2

i hope that this will solve your issue
DB::statement("ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE COLUMN column_name column_name TINYINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL");

Answer 3

Do This
Change tinyInteger to smallInteger
use Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Types\SmallIntType;
if (!Type::hasType('integer')) {
Type::addType('integer', SmallIntType::class);
}

Answer 4

I got same problem and found this solution. It worked for me. But it raise in me a question that why creator don't update to doctrine/dbal package. Maybe this solution can cause errors in some case? Hope someone explain in this answer.

Answer 5

Can you use boolean?
or
$table->smallInteger('column_name')->tinyInteger('column_name')->unsigned()->change();

Answer 6

If you are trying to convert a non-numeric column to an int column, you will get this error. The values cannot be converted.
You might run into this when converting an old string value to an id reference to a parent table.
Instead of trying to change the existing column, create a new column and delete the old:
// Add new int column
Schema::table('children', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->unsignedTinyInteger('parent_id')->after('parent_slug');
});
// Convert old values to new
// Only runs on environments that already have data in db, by virtue of pulling all records from the parents table
foreach (\App\Parents::all() as $parent) {
\App\Child::where('parent_slug', $parent->slug)->each(function ($child) use ($parent) {
$child->update([ 'parent_id' => $parent->id ]);
});
}
// Drop old string column
Schema::table('children', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->dropColumn('parent_slug');
});

Answer 7

!!! This solution is only for empty tables. Not if already populated.
Just drop and recreate the column with same name.
public function up()
{
// Drop and recreate because laravel don't allow to change to the tinyInteger type
Schema::table('your_table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->dropColumn(['rating']);
});
Schema::table('your_table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->tinyInteger('rating')->nullable()->after('some_column_name');
});
}

Answer 8

According to this https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/8840 "BOOL" and "BOOLEAN" are both synonymous to "TINYINT" therefor just use "boolean" method instead of "tinyInteger", its the same in Laravel.

Answer 9

try this
Schema::table('table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->tinyInteger('column_name')->default(0)->change();