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Define factories that allow you to generate entities with certain fields, filled with random data

Why?

• The built-in way to generate random entities, ContentEntityStorageInterface::createWithSampleValues, is lacking in a lot of ways: it is untested, has a lot of issues and is not very flexible.
• Use the same API as Laravel's model factories
• Generate realistic content tailored to the entity type using the Faker library.

Installation

This package requires PHP 7.1 and Drupal 8 or higher. It can be installed using Composer:

 composer require wieni/wmmodel_factory

How does it work?

Creating factories

Factories are the classes responsible for generating the data that will be used to fill the fields of the newly created entity.

Factories for certain entity type / bundle combinations can be added by creating plugins with the @EntityFactory annotation, defining the entity type ID in the entity_type parameter and the bundle in the bundle parameter. The class should also implement the EntityFactoryInterface interface.

It's also possible to create multiple factories for the same entity type / bundle combination by giving them unique names through the name annotation parameter.

Example

<?php

namespace Drupal\your_module\Entity\ModelFactory\Factory\Node;

use Drupal\your_module\Entity\Meta\Meta;
use Drupal\wmmodel_factory\EntityFactoryBase;

/**
 * @EntityFactory(
 *     entity_type = "node",
 *     bundle = "page"
 * )
 */
class PageFactory extends EntityFactoryBase
{
    public function make(): array
    {
        return [
            'title' => $this->faker->sentence(4),
            'menu_link' => null,
            'field_meta' => [
                'entity' => $this->faker->entity(Meta::class),
            ],
            'field_intro' => $this->faker->optional()->text(320),
        ];
    }
}

Creating states

States allow you to define discrete modifications that can be applied to your model factories in any combination. For example, your Page model might have an unpublished state that modifies one of its default attribute values.

States for certain entity type / bundle combinations can be added by creating plugins with the @EntityState annotation, defining the entity type ID in the entity_type parameter, the bundle in the bundle parameter and a unique name in the name parameter. The class should also implement the EntityStateInterface interface.

Example

<?php

namespace Drupal\your_module\Entity\ModelFactory\State\Node;

use Drupal\wmmodel_factory\EntityStateBase;

/**
 * @EntityState(
 *     name = "unpublished",
 *     entity_type = "node",
 * )
 */
class UnpublishedState extends EntityStateBase
{
    public function make(): array
    {
        return [
            'status' => 0,
        ];
    }
}

Generating entities

TODO

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG file.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email security@wieni.be instead of using the issue tracker.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.