Is there a way to use factories.createMany with a db seed?

[codepotato]

I'm very very new to Adonis but I'm coming from a 5 year background of Laravel so understand the concepts that are being used in Adonis nicely however I've fallen at the first hurdle; seeding db with factory created models!

To be clear, I've setup mysql and can confirm the connections are working as I have migrated (how damn easy was that!) but I think I'm having a derp moment when attempting to create factory powered models.

My code at the moment is:

  public async run () {
    await User.createMany(
      await UserFactory.createMany(10)
    )
  }
}

Any ideas why, when I run db:seed, it's attempting to put an empty object as one of the model parameters?

Just to add, I'm using Adonis v5

[codepotato]

A little more debugging here has narrowed it down to my userFactory.

export const UserFactory = Factory
  .define(User, ({ faker}) => {
    return {
      name: faker.name,
      email: faker.internet.email(),
      company_name: faker.company.companyName(),
    }
  })
  .build()

When I remove faker.name and replace it with a sting, it works.

[fnoquiq]

faker.name is a function

faker.name() instead of faker.name

[codepotato]

That's strange, I tried that and it said faker.name() is not a function. 🤷‍♂️

[fnoquiq]

Sorry, that's the correct way
name: faker.name.findName()

You can find examples here

[thetutlage]

I don't understand. Why you are feeding the output of your factory to the model?

Simply running UserFactory.createMany() will perform the inserts