Extending default User entity with a relation (TypeORM/MikroORM)

[kostas-pblworks]

Goals

1. Default User entity can be extended with a many-to-many relation

Non-Goals

Background

At the moment, when you pass custom entities to MikroORM or the TypeORM adapters, underneath the adapter will pick the entities based on the default entities.

I would like to be able to extend the User entity with a many-to-many relation such as "A user has many permissions" but because the adapter doesn't recognize the Permission entity, it throws an error.

The custom TypeORM entity below won't work as the adapter won't recognize the Permission entity:

@Entity({ name: 'users' })
export class User {
  @PrimaryGeneratedColumn('uuid')
  id!: string

  // ...

  // TypeORM doesn't recognize the Permission entity
  @ManyToMany('Permission', 'users')
  permissions!: Relation<Permission>[]
}

Proposal

I'm not sure what's the best way to implement this but I would be happy to contribute.