Diff ChangeLog Mode does not detect column type differences

General Discussion
1

Hi Team,

I found, that from version 3.0.0, “diffChangeLog” output xml does not include column type differences. But the normal “diff” detects and writes these differences normally in plain text format (not xml).

I did some debugging and found that this functionality has been removed (commented out) in liquibase.diff.output.changelog.core.ChangedColumnChangeGenerator class.

What is your plan with this issue?

I’m currently using 2.0.5, and can’t upgrade without this.

Thanks,
Zoltan

2

I created https://liquibase.jira.com/browse/CORE-1433 to track the re-adding of it. It must have been lost in the code changes going from 2.x to 3.x. I’ll try to get it fixed soon.


Nathan

3

Hi,

this still seems to be a issue in 3.0.5, even though it is marked “fixed”. As far as I can see, diff still does not create a plain textfile.

4

I’m not quite sure what you mean. Can you give me more information on what you are calling with 3.0.5 and your expected vs. actual results?

Nathan

5

Hi Nathan,
Thank you for your efforts, now it works again!
Zoltán

6

I’m calling the liquibase.integration.ant.DiffDatabaseTask.
I expected an output as in 2.0.5 that has the following content:
Reference Database:
Target Database:
Product Name:
Product Version:
Missing Tables:
Unexpected Tables:
Missing Views:
Unexpected Views:
Changed Views:
…

What I get is a a file with changesets. It is the exact same output as DiffDatabaseToChangeLogTask.

7

Yes, that isn’t right. I fixed it in the code for 3.0.7. Sorry for the bug.


Nathan

8

Just tried 3.0.7 and it works perfectly. Thank you for fixing it!