Make column not nullable in a Laravel 5 migration

Question

I have found this question very similar to mine Make column not nullable in a Laravel migration though it is almost 3 years old and it surely does not belong to Laravel 5

My problem is that I have a migration which in the up function it modifies a column to make it nullable. Now, in the down function I want to make it not nullable again.

/**
 * Run the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function up()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
        $table->string('mycolumn')->nullable()->change();
    });
}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
    /* THIS IS WHAT I WOULD EXPECT TO DO
    THOUGH OF COURSE THE FUNCTION notNullable DOES NOT WORK */
        $table->string('mycolumn')->notNullable()->change(); 
    });
}

I could achieve that using raw SQL, but I would like to do it using Laravel methods if it is possible... but I couldn't find it, probably it hasn't been implemented it in the version 5 either.

Answer 1

To reset it back to not nullable. You may try this.

/**
 * Run the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function up()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
        $table->string('mycolumn')->nullable()->change();
    });
}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
    /* By default it's NOT NULL */
        $table->string('mycolumn')->nullable(false)->change(); // <--- here
    });
}

Answer 2

By default its NOT NULL, so you should try this.

/**
 * Run the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function up()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
        $table->string('mycolumn')->nullable()->change();
    });
}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    Schema::table('mytable', function(Blueprint $table) {
    /* By default it's NOT NULL */
        $table->string('mycolumn')->change(); 
    });
}