… Over in the terminal, run: symfony console make:factory One nifty feature of Foundry is that you can create factories individually, or you can just go with "all" and it will make factories for all entities that don't yet have one. Select "all" and…

…finishes, run git status to see that the recipe enabled a bundle and also created one config file... which we won't need to look at. In short, Foundry helps us create entity objects. It's... almost easier just to see it in action. First…

… We now have many Question objects and they represent a rich set of unique data. This is why I love Foundry. If you click into one of the questions, you can see that the slug is unique... but was generated in a way that is…

…has extra features for test assertions! The bundle was created by Kevin Bond - a long time Symfony contributor and friend of mine who's been creating some really excellent libraries lately. Foundry is Canadian for fun! Let's get to work! Scroll down to the…

…manual. Put our callback... back... and return an array. There actually is a way in Foundry, to say: please give me a random Question where some field matches some value. But... in our case, we would need to say WHERE askedAt IS NOT NULL... which…

…fixtures! For this, I like to use Foundry along with DoctrineFixturesBundle. So, run composer require foundry orm-fixtures --dev to install both as dev dependencies. Once that finishes, run php bin/console make:factory If you haven't used Foundry before, for each entity, you…

…status to see what the recipes did: it enabled a bundle and added a config file. That config works well out of the box, so no need to look at it. With Foundry, every entity can have a factory class. To get these going run: …

OK, we have a couple of parts and a few starships, but to fill our testing data fleet: I want a lot more. This is a job perfectly suited for our good friend: Foundry. Remove the manual code, then anywhere, say: StarshipPartFactory::createMany(100): And…

… Normally, this would trigger an angry error. But it will work! Foundry sees that we have an addDroid() method, and it calls that instead, one-by-one for each Droid. Time to see this in action! Find your terminal and run: symfony console doctrine:fixtures…

…which is a really cool method. With this setup, when we call createMany(), Foundry will first call getDefaults(), grab that array, add question to it, and then will ultimately try to create the Answer using all of those values. The QuestionFactory::random() method does what…

Now that we've seen how we can relate Tag objects and Question objects, let's use Foundry to properly create some fresh Tag fixture data. Start by generating the Tag factory symfony console make:factory And... we want to generate the one for Tag…

…end up with extra questions that we don't really want. By the way, we're about to see some really cool, really advanced stuff in Foundry. But at the end, I'm also going to show a simpler solution to creating the objects we…

Foundry helped us add 20 ships. That makes our app look more realistic. But on production, we might have thousands of starships. This page would be gigantic and unusable. It'd probably also take a long time to load, time during which we are likely…

…the properties. Then make sure this saves with $manager->persist($part), and finally, $manager->flush(): Foundry usually calls persist() and flush() for us. But since we're in manual mode, we need to do it ourselves. We have a Starship and a StarshipPart, but they…

…a real database and real entities for this! Over in the terminal, install Zenstruck Foundry to help us manage our test database and fixtures: symfony composer require --dev zenstruck/foundry Back in our IDE, in the tutorial directory, copy the Entity folder into our bundle…

…Try reloading the fixtures: No errors, and for the first time, we see that proxy object I've been mentioning. Remember: when you create an object via Foundry, it hands you back your shiny new object, but it's bundled up inside another object called…

…it's all about the objects! Handling relationships in fixtures with Foundry The OneToMany "inverse" side of a relation Filtering a collection of related objects with Criteria orphanRemoval (not as heartless as it sounds!) Querying with Joins Solving the N+1 problem ManyToMany Relations ManyToMany…

…imaginable... and spin up a nifty test suite along the way: Disabling documentation on production Different types of API authentication Logging in via Ajax & sessions Creating an API Token system with "scopes" Securing your API resources Bootstrapping tests with zenstruck/browser & zenstruck/foundry! How to…

…Now, we need to hash that password before the User is saved to the database. Like we showed when working with Foundry, hashing a password is simple: grab the UserPasswordHasherInterface service then call a method on it: But to pull this off, we need a…

…a public function testAdminCanPatchToEditTreasure(). Then create an admin user with UserFactory::createOne() passing roles set to ROLE_ADMIN: That'll work fine. But if we need to create a lot of admin users in our tests, we can add a shortcut to Foundry. Open UserFactory…