How to define a Laravel factory without a model?

Question

I'm controller testing and essentially want to define a factory to represent a post from the internet.

This post gets split up into several models in the controller.

I'm functional testing the whole controller though so how do I create a factory without a model to represent a front end post?

It appears factory are made like this:

$factory->define(App\Models\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {

static $password;

return [
    'name' => $faker->name,
    'email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
    'password' => $password ?: $password = bcrypt('secret'),
    'remember_token' => str_random(10),
    ];
});

Its the App\Models\User::class that's throwing me. I want a generic one that's not tied to the User model or any model.

Answer 1

You would have to generate create a Query Builder instance in the seeder. So, for example, you want sample data in the balloons table :

DB::table('table_name')->insert(
  [
   'name' => $faker->name, 
   'email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail, 
   'password' => $password ?: $password = bcrypt('secret'),
   'remember_token' => str_random(10)
 ]
);

And you would have to do this for every row you want to insert into your given table. You wouldn't worry about the model factory since there isn't a model.

Answer 2

you can use Faker that already comes with laravel

use Faker\Factory;

$faker = Factory::create();

then use the faker as you use it in factories with models in laravel

i did that in seeder class

here what i did