Fixes #2726: ActiveRecord now fills default values on creating new instance of…

framework/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Enh #2661: Added boolean column type support for SQLite (qiangxue)
 - Enh #2670: Changed `console\Controller::globalOptions()` to `options($actionId)` to (make it possible to) differentiate options per action (hqx)
 - Enh #2714: Added support for formatting time intervals relative to the current time with `yii\base\Formatter` (drenty)
+- Enh #2726: ActiveRecord now fills default values on creating new instance of the model if defaults are available from DB schema (samdark)
 - Enh #2729: Added `FilterValidator::skipOnArray` so that filters like `trim` will not fail for array inputs (qiangxue)
 - Enh #2735: Added support for `DateTimeInterface` in `Formatter` (ivokund)
 - Enh #2756: Added support for injecting custom `isEmpty` check for all validators (qiangxue)

framework/db/ActiveRecord.php

@@ -94,6 +94,18 @@ class ActiveRecord extends BaseActiveRecord
     const OP_ALL = 0x07;
 
     /**
+     * @inheritdoc
+     */
+    public function init()
+    {
+        foreach ($this->getTableSchema()->columns as $column) {
+            if ($column->defaultValue) {
+                $this->{$column->name} = $column->defaultValue;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Returns the database connection used by this AR class.
      * By default, the "db" application component is used as the database connection.
      * You may override this method if you want to use a different database connection.

tests/unit/data/ar/Type.php

+<?php
+
+namespace yiiunit\data\ar;
+
+/**
+ * Model representing tbl_type table
+ *
+ * @property int $int_col
+ * @property int $int_col2 DEFAULT 1
+ * @property string $char_col
+ * @property string $char_col2 DEFAULT 'something'
+ * @property string $char_col3
+ * @property float $float_col
+ * @property float $float_col2 DEFAULT '1.23'
+ * @property string $blob_col
+ * @property float $numeric_col DEFAULT '33.22'
+ * @property string $time DEFAULT '2002-01-01 00:00:00'
+ * @property boolean $bool_col
+ * @property boolean $bool_col2 DEFAULT 1
+ */
+class Type extends ActiveRecord
+{
+    /**
+     * @inheritdoc
+     */
+    public static function tableName()
+    {
+        return 'tbl_type';
+    }
+}
+ 
\ No newline at end of file

tests/unit/framework/db/ActiveRecordTest.php

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use yiiunit\data\ar\OrderItem;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Order;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Item;
 use yiiunit\data\ar\Profile;
+use yiiunit\data\ar\Type;
 use yiiunit\framework\ar\ActiveRecordTestTrait;
 
 /**
@@ -486,4 +487,15 @@ class ActiveRecordTest extends DatabaseTestCase
         $this->assertTrue($orders[1]['customer2']['orders2'][0]['id'] === $orders[0]['id']);
         $this->assertTrue($orders[1]['customer2']['orders2'][1]['id'] === $orders[1]['id']);
     }
+
+    public function testDefaultValues()
+    {
+        $model = new Type();
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $model->int_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals('something', $model->char_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals(1.23, $model->float_col2);
+        $this->assertEquals(33.22, $model->numeric_col);
+        $this->assertEquals('2002-01-01 00:00:00', $model->time);
+        $this->assertEquals(true, $model->bool_col2);
+    }
 }