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api-skeletons/laravel-doctrine-data-fixtures
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Doctrine Data Fixtures for Laravel

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Laravel Doctrine Data Fixtures
==============================

[](#laravel-doctrine-data-fixtures)

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Laravel has built-in support for 'seed' data. In seed data, the classes are not namespaced and many developers treat seed data as a one-time import. Seed data often uses auto-increment primary keys. Perhaps these notes are what differentiates seed data from Fixtures.

In my fixtures I want static primary keys and I want to be able to re-run my fixtures at any time. I want the data my fixtures populate to be stored with my fixtures and I want to reference fixture values though class constants within my code.

For instance, to validate a user has an ACL role the code may read:

```
$acl->hasRole($user, 'admin');
```

but this use of strings in the code does not read well and may be error-prone. Instead of the above, I want my code to read

```
use App\ORM\Fixture\RoleFixture;

$acl->hasRole($user, RoleFixture::admin);
```

This pattern is not possible with seed data because seed data does not have namespaces. So, this repository exists not only as an alternative to Laravel seed data, but as a namespaced-integrated tool for static database data.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Run the following to install this library using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require api-skeletons/laravel-doctrine-data-fixtures
```

A `doctrine-data-fixtures.php` configuration file is required. Publish the included config to your project:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=config --provider="ApiSkeletons\Laravel\Doctrine\DataFixtures\ServiceProvider"
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Doctrine MongoDB, ORM and PHPCR are supported. See the configuration file for details.

This example assumes `laravel-doctrine/orm` is installed and you'll be using fixtures for ORM data:

```
return [
    'default' => [  // This is the group name
        'entityManager' => EntityManager::class,
        'executor' => ORMExecutor::class,
        'purger' => ORMPurger::class,
        'fixtures' => [
            Fixture1::class,
            Fixture2::class,
        ],
    ],
];
```

### Fixture Groups

[](#fixture-groups)

Modeled from [api-skeletons/doctrine-data-fixture](https://github.com/API-Skeletons/doctrine-data-fixture)for Laminas, fixtures are organized into groups. This organization allows fixtures for specific modules, development faker data, different entity managers, and so on.

Use
---

[](#use)

### List Fixtures

[](#list-fixtures)

List all groups or list all fixtures for a group.

```
php artisan doctrine:data-fixtures:list []
```

The `` is optional.

### Executing a Fixture Group through Artisan command

[](#executing-a-fixture-group-through-artisan-command)

```
php artisan doctrine:data-fixtures:import  [--purge-with-truncate] [--do-not-append]
```

The `` is required.

Append is the default option. This is inversed with --do-not-append

Options:

`--purge-with-truncate` if specified will purge the object manager's tables before running fixtures for the ORMPurger only.

`--do-not-append` will delete all data in the database before running fixtures.

Executing a Fixture Group from code
-----------------------------------

[](#executing-a-fixture-group-from-code)

For unit testing or other times you must run your fixtures from within code, follow this example:

```
use use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\Loader;

$config = config('doctrine-data-fixtures')[$groupName];

$objectManager = app($config['objectManager']);
$purger        = app($config['purger']);
$executorClass = $config['executor'];
$loader        = new Loader();

foreach ($config['fixtures'] as $fixture) {
    $loader->addFixture($fixture);
}

$executor = new $executorClass($objectManager, $purger);
$executor->execute($loader->getFixtures());
```

Doctrine data-fixtures
----------------------

[](#doctrine-data-fixtures)

Be sure to read the documentation on the parent library [doctrine/data-fixtures](https://github.com/doctrine/data-fixtures)

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~159 days

Recently: every ~199 days

Total

6

Last Release

762d ago

Major Versions

0.1.1 → 1.0.02022-02-05

### Community

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