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laravel-factory-prefill

Factories are a great concept and I really love to use them for testing purposes, but it sucks to write every needed column name and associated faker methods by hand. This package aims to make the process less painful by providing a command to prefill your factories!

After creating a factory with the artisan cli you end up having something like this:

<?php

use Faker\Generator as Faker;

$factory->define(Model::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        //
    ];
});

With laravel-factory-prefill you can just skip the previous command call and instead execute php artisan factory:prefill Habit.

Install

composer require naoray/laravel-factory-prefill --dev

Usage

After running php artisan migrate you are good to go. If you want the factory:prefill command to notice the model relations, you should implement the methods first!

Tip: If you also want the realtionships to be loaded automatically, you have to define the methods in the models.

Fill all Factories

To generate factories for all models run

php artisan factory:all

Models in different directories

To prefill factories from models outside of the app/ directory just add the -P flag and provide the path.

php artisan factory:all --path=Some/Other/Path

you can also append the --realpath option to indicate that the given path is a pre-resolved absolut path.

Fill single Factory

To fill a single factory you can either run php artisan factory:prefill model_name or php artisan factory:all model_name.

Models with different namespace

To prefill factories from models outside of the App/ namespace just add the -O flag and provide the full path in the model name.

php artisan factory:prefill "Some\Other\Namespace\ModelName" -O

Nullable columns

By default nullable columns are ignored. If you want to also add nullable columns to your factory includ the flag -N or --allow-nullable.

php artisan factory:prefill ModelName -N or php artisan factory:all -N

Testing

Run the tests with:

vendor/bin/phpunit

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.