✅ Migration-independent Database Seeding
Curious if EF has some sort of independent database seeding potential? I am kinda hoping to see a similar functionality to Laravel's Database Seeder where you can write the seed in a file which you can run at any time, regardless of whether or not your migrations are already ran. I find the
HasData fucntiuonality inherently counterproductive as I don't want to re-run all migrations over and over just so I can work with my seed data.
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Unknown User•3mo ago
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Which is exactly my problem with it
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I already have finalized the schema
Actually
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And have the migrations for it, already ran, which means that the schema is now in the database and the tables are already generated
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At which point, I started working with seeding hte database
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I am pointing out what you can do with database seeding in Laravel, which you can actually run without running the migrations
Which can work with existing database schemas.
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In laravel, migrations and seeders are independent of each other. YOu can write migrations without seeders, and you can write seeders without migrations.
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it just throws an error
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Just tells you that there's a problem when running the seed
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It knows because it would try to run the SQL statement
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just try it and see.
Anyhow, going back to the topic
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Hmmm interesting.
Is it possible to run this from a
dotnet ef XXX context?
sorta like
dotnet ef <New seed command> MySeederUnknown User•3mo ago
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Just wrapping my head around this EFCore thing coming from a Laravel background
I find it weird
Unknown User•3mo ago
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But I have to for ease of use.
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I think it's nice to define DDLs on code
Unknown User•3mo ago
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and make it easier for other folks working with me to understand what's happening
all the while being able to use dotnet tooling
you could make your own seed program as an alterantive start project. so instead of
dotnet run path/to/webapi youd do dotnet run path/to/seeder/Ooooh. So it's basically a new project inside my existing solution*?
yes
another alternative is to have your seeder run at startup of the web api, but check if it has already seeded
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