basic typeORM wrapper not connected the connection created

Question

I would like to create a Wrapper (service or manager) to drive TypeORM for my app.

I encounter lot of issue and I think my wrapper badly manage connection of my database with TypeORM.

I created basic example that seems to be good but.... connection is not connected (but TypeORM says that a connection is automatically connected when is created)

My methods to create or get connection previously created:

getConnection(): Connection
{
    if (!typeorm.getConnectionManager().has("default"))
    {
        this.createConnection()
        .then((connection) => {return connection})
        .catch((error) => {
            console.log('create connection database failed')
            dialog.showErrorBox('Error!', 'create connection database failed')
        })
    }
    else
    {
        return typeorm.getConnectionManager().get("default")
    }
}

my method for testing status connection:

status(): string
{
    if (!typeorm.getConnectionManager().has("default"))
    {
        return "nothing (default) connection"
    }
    else
    {
        let isConnected = typeorm.getConnectionManager().get("default").isConnected

        if (isConnected)
        {
            return "connected !"
        }
        else
        {
            return "not connected !"
        }
    }
}

and my createConnection method:

createConnection(): Promise<Connection>
{
    return typeorm.createConnection({
        name: 'default',
        type: 'better-sqlite3',
        database: './src/../data/database/mydb.db',
        entities: [
            xxxxx,
            xxxxxx,
            xxxxxx,
            xxxxxx
        ],
        synchronize: true
    })
}

and this is a basic persist method with test example:

persist(entityObject: any): any
{
    let connection = this.getConnection()

    if (connection instanceof Connection)
    {
        dialog.showErrorBox('DEBUG', 'connection is instance of Connection')
    }
    else
    {
        dialog.showErrorBox('DEBUG', 'connection is not instance of Connection')
    }

    dialog.showErrorBox('Connection Status', this.status())
    dialog.showErrorBox('Connection is connected ?', connection.isConnected.toString())
}

My connection variable is a good instance of Connection object TypeORM. But just after when I test if this connection is connected with this:

connection.isConnected.toString()

It return false.

and this:

this.status()

return me that connection is not connected

Very strange for me. I don't understand why and how manage connection into a wrapper class js. I think there is a little few tricks that I don't understand perhaps.

My logic process is : On each method of my wrapper class like Persist, update, select, etc... I test if connection ('default') exist. If yes a get this connection whereas I create connection. And after when I get Connection object I can launch my commands TypeORM into my database. Have I a good mentation?

Answer 1

I finished to resolve my issue about managing connection into wrapper service class TypeORM. This is my main js code. If that can help somebody...

getConnection(): Promise<Connection>
{
    if (!typeorm.getConnectionManager().has("default"))
    {
        return this.createConnection()
    }
    else
    {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
        {
            let connection = typeorm.getConnectionManager().get("default")

            if (connection instanceof Connection)
            {
                resolve(connection)
            }
            else
            {
                reject(() => {
                    let message = "impossible to get Connection"
                    dialog.showErrorBox('Error!', message)
                })
            }
        })
    }
}

status(): string
{
    if (!typeorm.getConnectionManager().has("default"))
    {
        return "nothing (default) connection"
    }
    else
    {
        let isConnected = typeorm.getConnectionManager().get("default").isConnected

        if (isConnected)
        {
            return "connected !"
        }
        else
        {
            return "not connected !"
        }
    }
}

close()
{
    if (!typeorm.getConnectionManager().has('default'))
    {
        let message = "nothing connection named default"
        console.log(message)
        dialog.showErrorBox('Error!', message)
    }
    else
    {
        let connection = typeorm.getConnectionManager().get('default')
        connection.close().then(() => {return true}).catch(() => {
            throw "impossible de clore la connection"
        })
    }
}

async createConnection(): Promise<Connection>
{
    return await typeorm.createConnection({
        name: "default",
        type: 'better-sqlite3',
        database: './src/../xxx/xxxxxxx/mydb.db',
        entities: [xxx,xxx,xxxxxx,xxxxx],
        synchronize: true
    })
}

Now, you can call getConnection() method in any other method that use connection TypeORM without worry about status or created connection.