Laravel db migration - renameColumn error - Unknown database type enum requested

Question

I am using Laravel 4.2. I have the following library loaded in my composer.json

\"doctrine/dbal\": \"2.4.*\",

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Answer 1

I met this problem in Laravel version 5.1.19 (LTS). This is actual for earlier versions too. I wanted to inform you as I resolved the issue base on previous comments.

First of all, I tried next code in my migration file:

$table->renameColumn('column_name');

But after command php artisan migrate, I got next error:

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException] Class 'Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOMySql\Driver' not found

As you know DBAL was removed from the laravel core and we need add it to the composer.json.(For example:"require": {"doctrine/dbal": "2.5.1"}). I set DBAL as required and tried again to do migrate command but got next error:

[Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException]
Unknown database type enum requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySqlPlatform may not support it.

Then I tried next raw sql in my migration file: For up():

DB::statement("ALTER TABLE `table_name` CHANGE `old_column_name` `new_column_name` ENUM('first value', 'second_value', ...) DEFAULT 'first_value' AFTER `some_field`");

For down():

DB::statement("ALTER TABLE `table_name` CHANGE `new_column_name` `old_column_name` ENUM('first value', 'second_value', ...) DEFAULT 'first_value' AFTER `some_field`");

and it works.

P.S. For renaming other fields in the table which contains an enum field we should use same schema with raw sql as was written in previous comments.