Model factory loop

Hi @davidsprauel

Yes there is a problem a contact factory creates a company but the company factory creates again a contact ...you are in a loop. I am not sure if this is the best way but this will not loop.

Change the company factory to this

$factory->define(Company::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'name'            => $faker->company,
        'contact_id'      => function() {
            return factory(Contact::class)->create()->id;
        },
        'location_id'     => factory(Location::class),
        'company_type_id' => rand(1, 3),
    ];
});

Create a company but you don't have a contact yet, so set this to 0

$company = factory(Company::class)->create(['contact_id' => 0]);

Update contact factory

$factory->define(Contact::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'company_id'       => function() {
            return factory(Company::class)->create()->id;
}       ,
        'user_category_id' => rand(1, 3),
        'entry_date'       => now(),
        'key'              => Str::random(16),
        'email'            => $faker->safeEmail
    ];
});

Create the contact

$contact = factory(Contact::class)->create(['company_id' => $company->id]);

Now we have also a contact so we can update company with this contact id.

$company->contact_id = $contact->id;
$company->save();

Change the user factory

$factory->define(User::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'contact_id'     => function() {
            return factory(Contact::class)->create()->id;
        },
        'firstname'      => $faker->firstName,
        'lastname'       => $faker->lastName,
        'email'          => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
        'password'       => 'yIXUNpkjO0rOQ5byMi.Ye4oKoEa3Ro9llC/.og/at2.uheWG/igi', // password,
        'key'            => Str::random(16),
        'remember_token' => Str::random(10),
    ];
});

Last step, create the user

$user= factory(User::class)->create(['contact_id' => $contact->id]);

Thanks fo your answer.

Just for me to know, there is a difference between doing

 'contact_id'      => function() {
            return factory(Contact::class)->create()->id;
        },

and

'contact_id' => factory(Contact::class)

?

The problem is, I can't set the contact_id to 0 as it has a foreign key and SQL will return an error

@davidsprauel

With the 'function'

'contact_id'      => function() {
            return factory(Contact::class)->create()->id;
        },

you can pass a variable and use it for the 'contact_id'. If you don't pass this variable it will use the return factory(Cont.... code.

With

'contact_id' => factory(Contact::class)

You are generating a new contact and you can not override the 'contact_id'

@mvd

Alright, I wasn't aware of that, thanks. I kinda found a solution:

factory(Company::class)->create([
            'contact_id' => factory(Contact::class)->create([
                'user_category_id' => 6
            ])->id
        ])

that work with no issues.

I'm having exactly the same problem.

It would be nice if there was a way so a factory knew when it was called from another factory and used the same id generated from the factory that called it.