Dates

Introduction

Often you want some kind of way to determine when entities were created or last updated at. This feature covers exactly that need.

Usage

It's as simple as adding the @Dates annotation and the 2 timestamp columns (createdAt, updatedAt) to your model. You can optionally specify the field names using the annotation parameters create and update.

@Dates
class User extends Model {
    /* <other fields> */
    @Column
    Timestamp createdAt;
    @Column
    Timestamp updatedAt;
}

Whenever you save the entity, the updatedAt field gets set to the current date and time while createdAt only gets set on the first save.