Exclude certain columns in frontend format entity generation

[DexterHill0]

I've been using the frontend export format as a way of creating simple serde structs that can be sent between the client & server, without needing the client to pull in sea-orm as a dependency.

One thing I realised recently is that I don't necessarily want every column of my database to be returned to users and, as it stands, all columns are exported into the struct definitions. Is there a way I can skip columns from being included in the entity generation? And even better, could I potentially insert my own custom fields into the struct?

[Huliiiiii]

Why not create a new struct?

[DexterHill0]

Do you mean create on manually? That's what I'm about to do (just edit the ones generated by the frontend and manually add new fields to them in the future) but I wondered if it was doable semi-automatically

[Huliiiiii]

Do you mean create on manually? That's what I'm about to do (just edit the ones generated by the frontend and manually add new fields to them in the future) but I wondered if it was doable semi-automatically

How would you ideally expect this feature to work?

[DexterHill0]

For excluding fields I was thinking it would probably just be a CLI flag, like sea-orm-cli generate entity .... --frontend-format --skip-field foo --skip-field bar. For adding fields, I'm not sure, but that's less important