レコードの作成

レコードを作成する

user := User{Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 18, Birthday: time.Now()}

result := db.Create(&user) // pass pointer of data to Create

user.ID             // returns inserted data's primary key
result.Error        // returns error
result.RowsAffected // returns inserted records count

Create() を使用して複数のレコードを作成することもできます:

users := []*User{
    {Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 18, Birthday: time.Now()},
    {Name: "Jackson", Age: 19, Birthday: time.Now()},
}

result := db.Create(users) // pass a slice to insert multiple row

result.Error        // returns error
result.RowsAffected // returns inserted records count

注意 **Create()**の引数として構造体を渡すことはできません。代わりにポインタを渡すようにしてください。

フィールドを選択してレコードを作成する

レコード作成時に、Selectで指定されたフィールドのみに対して値をアサインできます。

db.Select("Name", "Age", "CreatedAt").Create(&user)
// INSERT INTO `users` (`name`,`age`,`created_at`) VALUES ("jinzhu", 18, "2020-07-04 11:05:21.775")

省略する項目を指定し、レコードを作成します。

db.Omit("Name", "Age", "CreatedAt").Create(&user)
// INSERT INTO `users` (`birthday`,`updated_at`) VALUES ("2020-01-01 00:00:00.000", "2020-07-04 11:05:21.775")

一括作成

大量のレコードを効率的に挿入するには、スライスを Create メソッドに渡します。 GORMはすべてのデータを挿入する1つのSQL文を生成します。SQLが実行されると登録された主キーの値がモデルに代入され、フックメソッドも呼び出されます。 レコードを複数のバッチに分割することが可能な場合には、 トランザクション が開始されます。

var users = []User{{Name: "jinzhu1"}, {Name: "jinzhu2"}, {Name: "jinzhu3"}}
db.Create(&users)

for _, user := range users {
  user.ID // 1,2,3
}

CreateInBatches を利用することで、バッチサイズを指定してレコードを作成することができます。

var users = []User{{Name: "jinzhu_1"}, ...., {Name: "jinzhu_10000"}}

// batch size 100
db.CreateInBatches(users, 100)

Upsert や Create With Associations を使用する場合もバッチインサートはサポートされています。

注記 CreateBatchSize オプションを使ってGORMを初期化した場合、すべての INSERT は、その設定を参照してレコードやアソシエーションを作成します。

db, err := gorm.Open(sqlite.Open("gorm.db"), &gorm.Config{
  CreateBatchSize: 1000,
})

db := db.Session(&gorm.Session{CreateBatchSize: 1000})

users = [5000]User{{Name: "jinzhu", Pets: []Pet{pet1, pet2, pet3}}...}

db.Create(&users)
// INSERT INTO users xxx (5 batches)
// INSERT INTO pets xxx (15 batches)

作成時のHook

GORM allows user defined hooks to be implemented for BeforeSave, BeforeCreate, AfterSave, AfterCreate. These hook method will be called when creating a record, refer Hooks for details on the lifecycle

func (u *User) BeforeCreate(tx *gorm.DB) (err error) {
  u.UUID = uuid.New()

    if u.Role == "admin" {
        return errors.New("invalid role")
    }
    return
}

If you want to skip Hooks methods, you can use the SkipHooks session mode, for example:

DB.Session(&gorm.Session{SkipHooks: true}).Create(&user)

DB.Session(&gorm.Session{SkipHooks: true}).Create(&users)

DB.Session(&gorm.Session{SkipHooks: true}).CreateInBatches(users, 100)

Mapを使って作成する

GORM supports create from map[string]interface{} and []map[string]interface{}{}, e.g:

db.Model(&User{}).Create(map[string]interface{}{
  "Name": "jinzhu", "Age": 18,
})

// batch insert from `[]map[string]interface{}{}`
db.Model(&User{}).Create([]map[string]interface{}{
  {"Name": "jinzhu_1", "Age": 18},
  {"Name": "jinzhu_2", "Age": 20},
})

NOTE When creating from map, hooks won’t be invoked, associations won’t be saved and primary key values won’t be back filled

SQL式/Context Valuer で作成する

GORM allows insert data with SQL expression, there are two ways to achieve this goal, create from map[string]interface{} or Customized Data Types, for example:

// Create from map
db.Model(User{}).Create(map[string]interface{}{
  "Name": "jinzhu",
  "Location": clause.Expr{SQL: "ST_PointFromText(?)", Vars: []interface{}{"POINT(100 100)"}},
})
// INSERT INTO `users` (`name`,`location`) VALUES ("jinzhu",ST_PointFromText("POINT(100 100)"));

// Create from customized data type
type Location struct {
    X, Y int
}

// Scan implements the sql.Scanner interface
func (loc *Location) Scan(v interface{}) error {
  // Scan a value into struct from database driver
}

func (loc Location) GormDataType() string {
  return "geometry"
}

func (loc Location) GormValue(ctx context.Context, db *gorm.DB) clause.Expr {
  return clause.Expr{
    SQL:  "ST_PointFromText(?)",
    Vars: []interface{}{fmt.Sprintf("POINT(%d %d)", loc.X, loc.Y)},
  }
}

type User struct {
  Name     string
  Location Location
}

db.Create(&User{
  Name:     "jinzhu",
  Location: Location{X: 100, Y: 100},
})
// INSERT INTO `users` (`name`,`location`) VALUES ("jinzhu",ST_PointFromText("POINT(100 100)"))

高度な機能

関連データと関連付けて作成する

When creating some data with associations, if its associations value is not zero-value, those associations will be upserted, and its Hooks methods will be invoked.

type CreditCard struct {
  gorm.Model
  Number   string
  UserID   uint
}

type User struct {
  gorm.Model
  Name       string
  CreditCard CreditCard
}

db.Create(&User{
  Name: "jinzhu",
  CreditCard: CreditCard{Number: "411111111111"}
})
// INSERT INTO `users` ...
// INSERT INTO `credit_cards` ...

You can skip saving associations with Select, Omit, for example:

db.Omit("CreditCard").Create(&user)

// skip all associations
db.Omit(clause.Associations).Create(&user)

デフォルト値

You can define default values for fields with tag default, for example:

type User struct {
  ID   int64
  Name string `gorm:"default:galeone"`
  Age  int64  `gorm:"default:18"`
}

Then the default value will be used when inserting into the database for zero-value fields

NOTE Any zero value like 0, '', false won’t be saved into the database for those fields defined default value, you might want to use pointer type or Scanner/Valuer to avoid this, for example:

type User struct {
  gorm.Model
  Name string
  Age  *int           `gorm:"default:18"`
  Active sql.NullBool `gorm:"default:true"`
}

NOTE You have to setup the default tag for fields having default or virtual/generated value in database, if you want to skip a default value definition when migrating, you could use default:(-), for example:

type User struct {
  ID        string `gorm:"default:uuid_generate_v3()"` // db func
  FirstName string
  LastName  string
  Age       uint8
  FullName  string `gorm:"->;type:GENERATED ALWAYS AS (concat(firstname,' ',lastname));default:(-);"`
}

NOTE SQLite doesn’t support some records are default values when batch insert. See SQLite Insert stmt. For example:

type Pet struct {
    Name string `gorm:"default:cat"`
}

// In SQLite, this is not supported, so GORM will build a wrong SQL to raise error:
// INSERT INTO `pets` (`name`) VALUES ("dog"),(DEFAULT) RETURNING `name`
db.Create(&[]Pet{{Name: "dog"}, {}})

A viable alternative is to assign default value to fields in the hook, e.g.

func (p *Pet) BeforeCreate(tx *gorm.DB) (err error) {
    if p.Name == "" {
        p.Name = "cat"
    }
}

You can see more info in issues#6335

When using virtual/generated value, you might need to disable its creating/updating permission, check out Field-Level Permission

コンフリクト発生時のUpsert

GORM provides compatible Upsert support for different databases

import "gorm.io/gorm/clause"

// Do nothing on conflict
db.Clauses(clause.OnConflict{DoNothing: true}).Create(&user)

// Update columns to default value on `id` conflict
db.Clauses(clause.OnConflict{
  Columns:   []clause.Column{{Name: "id"}},
  DoUpdates: clause.Assignments(map[string]interface{}{"role": "user"}),
}).Create(&users)
// MERGE INTO "users" USING *** WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT *** WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET ***; SQL Server
// INSERT INTO `users` *** ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ***; MySQL

// Use SQL expression
db.Clauses(clause.OnConflict{
  Columns:   []clause.Column{{Name: "id"}},
  DoUpdates: clause.Assignments(map[string]interface{}{"count": gorm.Expr("GREATEST(count, VALUES(count))")}),
}).Create(&users)
// INSERT INTO `users` *** ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `count`=GREATEST(count, VALUES(count));

// Update columns to new value on `id` conflict
db.Clauses(clause.OnConflict{
  Columns:   []clause.Column{{Name: "id"}},
  DoUpdates: clause.AssignmentColumns([]string{"name", "age"}),
}).Create(&users)
// MERGE INTO "users" USING *** WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT *** WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET "name"="excluded"."name"; SQL Server
// INSERT INTO "users" *** ON CONFLICT ("id") DO UPDATE SET "name"="excluded"."name", "age"="excluded"."age"; PostgreSQL
// INSERT INTO `users` *** ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `name`=VALUES(name),`age`=VALUES(age); MySQL

// Update all columns to new value on conflict except primary keys and those columns having default values from sql func
db.Clauses(clause.OnConflict{
  UpdateAll: true,
}).Create(&users)
// INSERT INTO "users" *** ON CONFLICT ("id") DO UPDATE SET "name"="excluded"."name", "age"="excluded"."age", ...;
// INSERT INTO `users` *** ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `name`=VALUES(name),`age`=VALUES(age), ...; MySQL

Also checkout FirstOrInit, FirstOrCreate on Advanced Query

Checkout Raw SQL and SQL Builder for more details