I'm trying to add a relation to a factory model to do some database seeding as follows - note I'm trying to add 2 posts to each user
public function run()
{
factory(App\User::class, 50)->create()->each(function($u) {
$u->posts()->save(factory(App\Post::class, 2)->make());
});
}
But its throwing the following error
Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasOneOrMany::s
ave() must be an instance of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model, instance
of Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection given
I think its something to do with saving a collection. If re-write the code by calling each factory model for the post separately it seems to work. Obviously this isn't very elegant because if I want to persist 10 or post to each user then I'm having to decalare 10 or lines unless I use some kind of for loop.
public function run()
{
factory(App\User::class, 50)->create()->each(function($u) {
$u->posts()->save(factory(App\Post::class)->make());
$u->posts()->save(factory(App\Post::class)->make());
});
}
* UPDATED *
Is there any way to nest the model factory a 3rd level deep?
public function run()
{
factory(App\User::class, 50)
->create()
->each(function($u) {
$u->posts()->saveMany(factory(App\Post::class, 2)
->make()
->each(function($p){
$p->comments()->save(factory(App\Comment::class)->make());
}));
});
}
Since Laravel 5.6 there is a callback functions afterCreating & afterMaking allowing you to add relations directly after creation/make:
$factory->afterCreating(App\User::class, function ($user, $faker) {
$user->saveMany(factory(App\Post::class, 10)->make());
});
$factory->afterMaking(App\Post::class, function ($post, $faker) {
$post->save(factory(App\Comment::class)->make());
});
Now
factory(App\User::class, 50)->create()
will give you 50 users with each having 10 posts and each post has one comment.