Questions tagged [laravel-factory]
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Defining Laravel foreign keys with Model Factories, One to One & One to Many Relationships without creating unnecessary models
Recently I have been trying to seed my database using Laravel seeding through Model Factories and Faker.
For simple schemas, it is just a breeze to have it working :). However, I have encountered several problems when working with complex DB schemas…
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Laravel 8 - Factories & Foreign Keys
I haven't been able to locate how to manage foreign keys when creating Factories and Seeders.
I have a users table and a blog_posts table. The blog_posts table has a foreign key user_id that references users.id. I would like to seed my database with…
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Factory creating multiple models with different number of relationships
I'm using the following code to create 20 posts, each of which has 3 comments.
Post::factory()
->times(20)
->has(Comment::factory()->times(3))
->create()
Instead I'd like to create 20 posts, each of which has a random number of comments…
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Laravel 8 factory class is not overriding the parameters while creating the factories
I am developing a web application using Laravel 8. I have noticed that quite a lot of things have changed in Laravel 8 including factories.
I have a factory class MenuCategoryFactory for my MenuCategory model class with the following…
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How to get unique values from faker?
I would like to ask how to generate unique value from faker?
I know this is a familiar question actually, you may put some duplicate links e.g. link 1, link 2 but unfortunately, these links does not answer my problem.
Here is my code below. I tried…
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Laravel 8 Multiple Relationships for Factory
In Laravel 8 it is possible to quickly fill relationships with factories. However, I cannot figure out how to generate more than one relationship. How can I create a random or new relationship for each link using the new Laravel 8 syntax?
This…
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Laravel factory Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Database\Grammar::parameterize() must be of the type array, string given
I get this error when trying to run a factory in laravel 8. I've looked though several posts about this error but they all seem to come from saving/creating directly incorrectly. Not using a factory. So I am not sure why the factory isn't saving it…
user16092281
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How with laravel factory add data to related table?
In laravel 8 app I add dummy data for ads table with factory:
$ads = Ad::factory()->count(10)->expired($year, $month)->create([
]);
And with database/factories/AdFactory.php:
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I got error array_merge Expected parameter 2 to be in laravel 8 factory?
In Laravel 8.12 running factory from controller I got error :
[2021-01-12 16:42:10] local.ERROR: array_merge(): Expected parameter 2 to be an array, int given {"exception":"[object] (ErrorException(code: 0): array_merge(): Expected parameter 2 to be…
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How to pass parameters to laravel factory in database seeder?
Is it possible to pass data from seeder to factory?
This is my PictureFactory:
class PictureFactory extends Factory{
protected $model = Picture::class;
public function definition($galleryId = null, $news = false){
if…
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Call to undefined method newCollection when using factories with Laravel-Doctrine
I would like to use Model factories, but I get this error:
1) Tests\Factory\UserFactoryTest::testUserCount
Error: Call to undefined method…
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How to send a value as parameter to the Factory Class
I need to run a Factory 50 times, so inside the DatabseSeeder:
public function run()
{
for($i=1;$i<=50;$i++){
(new CategoryQuestionFactory($i))->create();
}
}
So as you can see, I tried passing a variable called $i as parameter to…
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Laravel factory: recycle method not randomize input collection
It says in the documentation that "The recycle method also accepts a collection of existing models. When a collection is provided to the recycle method, a random model from the collection will be chosen when the factory needs a model of that…
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Laravel 7 model factory is throwing "InvalidArgumentException: Unknown formatter" exception for faker
I started building a web application using Laravel 8. I have noticed that a couple of things have changed in the Laravel 8 including model factory. Now, I am writing a unit test using factories for models. But it is throwing error when I fake the…
Wai Yan Hein
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Laravel 7: Create a custom factory for category
I was trying to make the following category factory to work.
Category factory
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