MySQL Schema Management Plugin for MySQL Shell

January 21, 2026 · View on GitHub

This folder contains the code for the MySQL Schema Management Plugin. It is part of the MySQL Shell Plugins repository.

Contributing to MySQL Schema Management Plugin

No installation is necessary for this plugin, beside the setup of Visual Studio Code to be able to work on the code.

To be able to run the tests, MySQL Shell must be installed and in the path.

When inside the shell_plugins folder run the following command on the terminal.

mysqlsh --pym pip install -r msm_plugin/requirements.txt

The test can be executed by running the run-pytest script in the NPM SCRIPTS section of the VS Code sidebar.

To run the tests from the terminal, changing into the shell_plugins folder and run the following command.

mysqlsh --log-level=debug3 --verbose=4 --py -f run_tests.py

To run a specific test, use the -k option.

mysqlsh --log-level=debug3 --verbose=4 --py -f run_tests.py -k test_plugin_version