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The package allows you to generate Laravel model factories automatically from your models.

It uses the model's database connection to retrieve the column information so the package can be used with multiple databases.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require jwhulette/factory-generator

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jwhulette\FactoryGenerator\FactoryGeneratorServiceProvider.php" --tag="factory-generator-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

<?php

return [
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Overwrite an existing factory
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'overwrite' => false,

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Set the factory column name to lower case
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'lower_case_column' => false,

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | An array of columns to skip on factory creation
    | Note: Column names are case sensitive
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'skip_columns' => ['id', 'ID'],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Add a column hint to the defintion
    | @example 'payment' => '', // Type: Float | Nullable: True | Precision: 8 | Scale: 2
    | @example 'first_name' => '', // Type: String | Nullable: True | Length: 255
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'add_column_hint' => false,

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Set the defintion based on the column properties
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'definition' => [
        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | If the column allows nulls, set the factory column value to null
        | IMPORTANT: This setting will overide all others
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */
        'set_null_default' => false,

        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | If the column is a date column, set it to now()
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */
        'set_date_now' => false,

        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | If the column is a numeric column, set it to 0
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        */
        'set_numeric_zero' => false,
    ],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Support for custom DB types
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This setting allow you to map any custom database type (that you may have
    | created using CREATE TYPE statement or imported using database plugin
    | / extension to a Doctrine type.
    |
    | Each key in this array is a name of the Doctrine DBAL Platform. Currently valid names are:
    | 'postgresql', 'db2', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'sqlite', 'mssql'
    |
    | This name is returned by getName() method of the specific Doctrine/DBAL/Platforms/AbstractPlatform descendant
    |
    | The value of the array is an array of type mappings. Key is the name of the custom type,
    | (for example, "jsonb" from Postgres 9.4) and the value is the name of the corresponding Doctrine type (in
    | our case it is 'json_array'. Doctrine types are listed here:
    | https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/reference/types.html#types
    |
    | So to support jsonb in your models when working with Postgres, just add the following entry to the array below:
    |
    | "postgresql" => array(
    |       "jsonb" => "json_array",
    |  ),
    |
    */
    'custom_db_types' => [],
];

Usage

php artisan factory:generate app/Models/User

To overwrite a single factory

php artisan factory:generate app/Models/User --overwrite

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Wes Hulette
• All Contributors

License

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