What is the best way to handle Time objects in mySQL+prisma?

Question

I am using mySQL as a database and Prisma as an ORM and basically need to store Time objects without the Date part, eg '1:12.55', '12.53', '0.59'

I tried to model my table in schema.prisma file like this:

model Result {
    attempt1 DateTime
}

Which resulted in the migration:

CREATE TABLE `Result` (
    `date` DATETIME() NOT NULL
}

How do I modify my schema.prisma content so that it creates a migration with time field type instead of date ?

Answer 1

If you store a time bigger than 24 hours, you will need to use a DateTime. If you want another way to store time, you could use an Integer and then store a Unix Timestamp. This is one of the way I use if needed.

If you are looking for something else, I do not understand what it is. Maybe you could look in the documentation for something similar?

Answer 2

To store only the date portion you could use the native @db.date attribute. That would just store the date and not store the time.

In your schema file you could update the model as below to just store the date portion:

model modelName {
  id         Int      @id @default(autoincrement())
  createdAt  DateTime @default(now()) @db.Date
  lastNumber Int
}

Here's a reference to Prisma's MySQL DateTime attribute: Reference