Using a Progress Bar while Seeding a database in Laravel

Question

I have to seed quite a lot of data into a database and I want to be able to show the user a progress bar while this happens. I know this is documented:

• https://laravel.com/docs/master/artisan#registering-commands (just above)
• http://symfony.com/doc/2.7/components/console/helpers/progressbar.html

but I'm having problems including it in my seeder.

<?php  use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;  class SubDivisionRangeSeeder extends Seeder {     public function run()     {         $this->output->createProgressBar(10);         for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {             sleep(1);             $this->output->advance();         }         $this->output->finish();     } } 

or

<?php  use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;  class SubDivisionRangeSeeder extends Seeder {     public function run()     {         $this->output->progressStart(10);         for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {             sleep(1);             $this->output->progressAdvance();         }         $this->output->progressFinish();     } } 

from https://mattstauffer.co/blog/advanced-input-output-with-artisan-commands-tables-and-progress-bars-in-laravel-5.1

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can get access to output through $this->command->getOutput()

public function run() {     $this->command->getOutput()->progressStart(10);     for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {         sleep(1);         $this->command->getOutput()->progressAdvance();     }     $this->command->getOutput()->progressFinish(); }