How to get table content of database in NestJS? - mysql

Question

I created a database in MySQL with the name: refy. It contains one table called app.
Using NestJS, I am trying to find all columns in the table like this:
import { Controller, Get } from '#nestjs/common';
import { AppService } from './app.service';
import { App } from 'src/database/refy/app.entity';
#Controller()
export class AppController {
constructor(private readonly refyService: AppService) {}
#Get('/refy')
findAll(): Promise<App[]> {
return this.refyService.findAll();
}
}
Entity file has:
import { Entity, Column, PrimaryGeneratedColumn } from 'typeorm';
#Entity({name: 'app'})
export class App {
#PrimaryGeneratedColumn()
id: number;
#Column()
name: string;
#Column()
webhookSecretKey: string;
#Column()
webhookUrl: string;
#Column()
clientId: string;
#Column()
clientSecretKey: string;
}
Apparently, the database is well connected and reached;
however, when I use Postman to get the data it gives a 500 error:
With terminal debug error:
EntityMetadataNotFoundError: No metadata for "App" was found
I want it to return data like this:
{
"webhookSecretKey": "1",
"webhookUrl": "2",
"clientId": "3",
"clientSecretKey": "4",
"id": 5,
"name": "6"
}

Answer 1

This can happen for two main reasons :
You have the wrong path in your OrmConfig, update it like this :
entities: [__dirname + '/../**/*.entity.{js,ts}']
You forgot to add the entity App to the TypeOrmModule.forRoot inside the imports array to the main module :
imports: [
TypeOrmModule.forRoot({
entities: [App]
}),
],