Bug: Not relative imports between inherited entity not supported

[AmirDavoodi]

Versions

• Node: v18.20.5
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Reproduction

I am having entities in different directory which are using inheritance.

• MasterEntity: Located inside src/common/entity/master.entity.ts
• BaseEntity: Located inside src/common/entity/base.entity.ts
• UserEntity: Located inside src/user/entity/user.entity.ts
• OtpEntity: Located inside src/sms/entity/otp.entity.ts

I am importing the parent entity using the normal importing using the vscode.
for example:

import { BaseEntity } from 'src/common/entity/base.entity';
export class UserEntity extends BaseEntity<UserEntity> {
    ...
}

This type of importing the parent entity gives me Not Found error when I run the seed:run

Error: Cannot find module 'src/common/entity/base.entity'
code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND'

Additional Details

root@fa9931f4e061:/app# npm run seed:run create-permissions.seeder.ts

> backend@0.0.1 seed:run
> ts-node ./node_modules/typeorm-extension/bin/cli.cjs seed:run -r ./ -d src/config/typeorm-datasource.ts -n create-permissions.seeder.ts

ℹ DataSource Directory: /app/src/config                                                                         11:29:51 PM
ℹ DataSource Name: typeorm-datasource.ts                                                                        11:29:51 PM
ℹ Seed Name: create-permissions.seeder.ts                                                                       11:29:54 PM
typeorm-extension seed:run

Populate the database with an initial data set or generated data by a factory.

Options:
  -h, --help               Show help                                   [boolean]
      --preserveFilePaths  This option indicates if file paths should be
                           preserved.                 [boolean] [default: false]
  -r, --root               Root directory of the project.      [default: "/app"]
      --tsconfig, --tc     Name (or relative path incl. name) of the tsconfig
                           file.                      [default: "tsconfig.json"]
  -d, --dataSource         Name (or relative path incl. name) of the data-source
                           file.                        [default: "data-source"]
  -n, --name               Name (or relative path incl. name) of the seeder.
  -v, --version            Show version number                         [boolean]

Error: Cannot find module 'src/common/entity/base.entity'
Require stack:
- /app/src/sms/entity/otp.entity.ts
- /app/node_modules/typeorm/util/ImportUtils.js
- /app/node_modules/typeorm/connection/ConnectionOptionsReader.js
- /app/node_modules/typeorm/globals.js
- /app/node_modules/typeorm/index.js
- /app/node_modules/typeorm-extension/dist/index.cjs
- /app/node_modules/typeorm-extension/bin/cli.cjs
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1140:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename.sharedData.moduleResolveFilenameHook.installedValue [as _resolveFilename] (/app/node_modules/@cspotcode/source-map-support/source-map-support.js:811:30)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1231:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:177:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/app/src/sms/entity/otp.entity.ts:1:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1364:14)
    at Module.m._compile (/app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1618:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1422:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (/app/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1621:12) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/app/src/sms/entity/otp.entity.ts',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm/util/ImportUtils.js',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm/connection/ConnectionOptionsReader.js',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm/globals.js',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm/index.js',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm-extension/dist/index.cjs',
    '/app/node_modules/typeorm-extension/bin/cli.cjs'
  ]
}

The only working solution that I found is to replace all the import path to a relative path which does not being supported by the vscode. By the way, I am coding using NestJS framework.

Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions.

Steps to reproduce

Just created an import without a relative path to your entities file and then try to run the seed:run command. You see the Not Found error.

What is Expected?

Supporting the not relative path by providing the project root path. I already provided the -r options but not working.
`"seed:run": "ts-node ./node_modules/typeorm-extension/bin/cli.cjs seed:run -r ./ -d src/config/typeorm-datasource.ts -n create-permissions.seeder.ts"

What is actually happening?

Not being able to report the import without relative path.
For example, the path should be change as bellow

• import { BaseEntity } from 'src/common/entity/base.entity';
• import { BaseEntity } from '../../common/entity/base.entity';

[AmirDavoodi]

By the way, here is my datasource options for my postgres db.

import { DataSource, DataSourceOptions } from 'typeorm';
import { ConfigService } from './config.service';
import { SeederOptions } from 'typeorm-extension';

const configService = new ConfigService();
const options: DataSourceOptions & SeederOptions = {
  ...configService.database.postgres,
  subscribers: ['src/**/subscriber/*.subscriber.{ts,js}'],
  entities: ['src/**/entity/*.entity.{ts,js}'],
  migrations: ['src/database/migration/*.{ts,js}'],
  seeds: ['src/database/seeds/**/*.seeder.{.ts,.js}'],
  factories: ['src/database/factories/**/*.factory.{.ts,.js}'],
  synchronize: false,
};

const TypeOrmDataSource = new DataSource(options);
export default TypeOrmDataSource;