Seeders

Apiato seeders are just Laravel Seeders, and they function in the exact same way as Laravel seeders. However, they come with additional rules and conventions specific to Apiato.

To generate new seeders, you may use the apiato:make:seeder interactive command:

php artisan apiato:make:seeder

Rules

• All container-specific Seeders MUST be placed in the app/Containers/{Section}/{Container}/Data/Seeders directory.
• All Seeders MUST extend the App\Ship\Parents\Seeders\Seeder class.

Folder Structure

app
└── Containers
    └── Section
        └── Container
            └── Data
                └── Seeders
                    ├── DemoSeeder_1.php
                    ├── AnotherDemoSeeder_2.php
                    └── ...

Code Example

Seeders are defined exactly as you would define them in Laravel.

Prepend Section Name

In situations where two seeder classes have the same name but exist in different containers, manually prepend the seeder name with the section name to distinguish them.

Loading Order

Apiato enables the loading of seeders in a specific order. To organize the seeding of classes, simply add _1, _2, and so on, to your class names. For instance, UserPermissionsSeeder_1 will be loaded before UserPermissionsSeeder_2.

Configuration

Apiato is configured to load all seeder files in the app/Containers/{Section}/{Container}/Data/Seeders directory.

If the default configuration does not suit your needs, you can customize it via the Apiato Configuration class.