How to seed schemas in Gentics Mesh

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I'm working with a team of developers, and we need to be able to stand-up a Mesh instance with all the predefined schemas on anyone's laptop.

I'd like to be able to create schemas if they don't exist, based on a collection of JSON files.

I've started a Gentics Mesh plugin that will look for the schema files, then add them via the MeshRestClient.

Is that a good approach?

We actually had the idea for a "dev mode" that would enable this kind of feature. Using a plugin for this would also be a good idea. Some plugins already setup schemas and nodes. This can additionally be combined with events. A project create event could for example trigger the setup of a project and so on. Related Issue: https://github.com/gentics/mesh-incubator/issues/101 — Jotschi, Oct 12 '19 at 22:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '19 at 06:29

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So I built a "mesh-seeding-plugin", and it worked as expected.

It uses a config file to get the list of json schemas to load up, then when the plugin initializes, it created the schemas if they don't exist.

answered Oct 12 '19 at 06:29

Jeremy

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Would you be willing to share your solution? – Dario Seidl Apr 23 '20 at 09:50
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Sure - I just created a repo for it. https://github.com/savantly-net/mesh-seeding-plugin – Jeremy Apr 30 '20 at 15:44
Thanks, much appreciated! – Dario Seidl Apr 30 '20 at 20:48

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