Build and run a local per-project sea-orm-cli?

[Expurple]

Currently, the recommened way to install sea-orm-cli is to install it globally using cargo intall sea-orm-cli. This approach ignores the sea-orm version pinned in my project's Cargo.lock and blindly installs the latest version. This affects the generated code and results in large diffs. I had to manually cargo intall sea-orm-cli@MY.VER.SION. But this is not a good workaround, it doesn't track changes in my Cargo.toml and doesn't scale to multiple projects with different sea-orm versions.

Is there a way to build and run sea-orm-cli locally, npx-style?

This would be the best solution for me. I want to track sea-orm-cli in the project's Cargo.lock and keep it local. But I haven't found any way to do so. Have you explored the relevant features of cargo? If you've researched this too and cargo doesn't support this, I can create a feature request for cargo.

[tyt2y3]

That's a legit setup. I would suggest you to always upgrade to the latest version, but meanwhile before you upgrade, you can:

1. create a crate in the workspace that depends on a particular version of sea-orm-cli
2. create a main.rs and call the cli commands
3. advice your teammates to use the local version, i.e. my-project-cli

Ref: https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/master/sea-orm-cli/src/bin/main.rs

There's a tiny bit of boilerplate, but everything is exposed as lib in the cli.

[Expurple]

I would suggest you to always upgrade to the latest version

Sure, but sometimes I'm just working on a PR that isn't supposed to change that. And by the way, if I use the global latest sea-orm-cli during that, can't it in theory generate code that's incompatible with the project's sea-orm version? That seems like a real downside to your current approach. Another downside is that the global version doesn't auto-update when the project's sea-orm version is updated. I really think that using a local synchronized version is the right way.

To get rid of the boilerplate in the future, I'll make a feature request for cargo as I planned to. Meanwhile, can you also export the whole main() function? That would save me an unnecessary repeated copy-paste in case sea-orm-cli is updated and something's changed there.

[Expurple]

My cargo feature request.

[Expurple]

I prepared a pull request with exported main() function: #2034, it would make applying your workaround easier