Supply a custom path to Prisma schema file for CLI commands (i.e. --schema?)

[Jolg42]

This is useful when you want to run the commands from the root folder of your project for example and your schema.prisma file is in a subdirectory. It avoids changing directories.

• What is the naming of the flag/param? (path, schema, ...)
• Which commands require it?
• Also available via ENV var? (e.g. PRISMA_SCHEMA_PATH)
• How are the developers made aware of it being active?

[Jolg42]

@schickling I'm implementing it like this --schema=./directory/prisma.schema
Spec will be in Notion soon!

[janpio]

Internal: Can you link the spec here please @Jolg42?

[Jolg42]

There is none at the moment, Søren is on it :)

[Jolg42]

It is implemented as --schema=./path/to/prisma.schema (absolute or relative)

@sorenbs I can't find it in the spec, is it on a branch?

[Jolg42]

It is in https://github.com/prisma/specs/blob/master/cli/README.md#init in Arguments sections like
schema specify the path used to read the schema.prisma file instead of the default path. The path can be absolute or relative. Note that the generation result is written to that same file.

[aeharake]

@ Jolg42 Hello, did you manage to find a way to specify the path from .env?

This is useful when you want to run the commands from the root folder of your project for example and your schema.prisma file is in a subdirectory. It avoids changing directories.

* What is the naming of the flag/param? (path, schema, ...)

* Which commands require it?

* Also available via ENV var? (e.g. `PRISMA_SCHEMA_PATH`)

* How are the developers made aware of it being active?

Ok got it. We can set this from package.json:

  "prisma": {
    "schema": "prisma/schema.prisma"
  },

[Jolg42]

The docs are here https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-schema#prisma-schema-file-location