Support for CIDR column type in Migrations?

[rahulmkhj]

PostgreSQL supports two types of columns to store IP/Network information, inet and cidr. In laravel migrations we can add an inet column via ipAddress(). However, I don't seem to find a method to create a CIDR type column.

May I request to add support for CIDR type of columns?

[hafezdivandari]

You may use rawColumn() added on v11.32.0 via #53496:

Schema::create('my_table', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->rawColumn('my_column', 'cidr');
});

[shaedrich]

Would you implement this as a new method on the blueprint class or as an additional argument for the existing ipAddress() method?

[rahulmkhj]

Personally I don't have a preference. But looking at the currently supported column types here: https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/migrations#available-column-types we have separate methods for timestamps and nullableTimestamps and so on.. A new method would be relatively more suitable :)

[shaedrich]

Wouldn't say, I like that, but you've got a point 👍🏻

I checked the actual code and there are some methods (e.g. unsignedInteger()) which internally call another method with pre-set arguments. That might be another possible approach that would combine both by keeping them separate in the public API and combining them as an implementation detail 🤔