README.md

# Drill

**Seed data handling for Elixir**

Drill is an elixir seeder library inspired by [Seed Fu](https://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu) and [Phinx](https://github.com/cakephp/phinx).

## Documentation

[Official documentation on hexdocs](https://hexdocs.pm/drill/api-reference.html)

## Usage

1. Create your seeder modules. The directory where the seeder modules should be located
   is described on [mix drill documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/drill/Mix.Tasks.Drill.html).

In `my_app/priv/repo/seeds/user.exs`:

```
defmodule MyApp.Seeds.User do
  use Drill, key: :users, source: MyApp.Accounts.User

  def factory do
    %{
      first_name: Person.first_name(),
      last_name: Person.last_name()
    }
  end

  def run(_context) do
    [
      seed(email: "email1@example.com"),
      seed(email: "email2@example.com"),
      seed(email: "email3@example.com")
    ]
  end
end
```

In `my_app/priv/repo/seeds/post.exs`:

```
defmodule MyApp.Seeds.Post do
  use Drill, key: :posts, source: MyApp.Blogs.Post
  alias Faker.Lorem

  def deps do
    [MyApp.Seeds.User]
  end

  def factory do
    %{content: Lorem.paragraph()}
  end

  def run(%Drill.Context{seeds: %{users: [user1, user2, user3 | _]}}) do
    [
      seed(user_id: user1.id),
      seed(user_id: user2.id),
      seed(user_id: user3.id)
    ]
  end
end
```

2. Run `mix drill -r MyApp.Repo` in the terminal with your project root as the current working directory

## Installation

Add `drill` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

```
def deps do
  [
    {:drill, "~> 1.2"}
  ]
end
```

## Configurations

### Timeout

Default timeout is 600 seconds or 10 minutes. You may configure the task timeout in your config.exs file. For example:
`config :drill, :timeout, 10_000`

## `use Drill` options

- `source` (required) - source is the schema module
- `key` (required) - once the seeder module runs, the inserted result will be saved to `%Drill.Context{}.seeds[key]`.
  Drill.Context struct is passed to one of Drill's callback which is `run/1` to be discussed in the `Callbacks`
  section below.
- `returning` (optional) - selects which fields to return. Defaults to true. See [Ecto.Repo.insert_all/3](https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Repo.html#c:insert_all/3)

## Callbacks

- `constraints/0` (optional) - returns a list of column names to verify for conflicts. If a conflict occurs all fields will
  just be updated. This prevents insertion of new records based on the constraints when drill is run again.
- `on_conflict/0` (optional) - returns the conflict strategy. The default is `:replace_all`. Only works when `constraints/0`
  returns a non-empty list. See [Ecto.Repo.insert_all/4](https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Repo.html#c:insert_all/4) for more details.
- `deps/0` (optional) - returns a list of seeder modules that should be run prior to the current seeder
- `factory/0` (optional) - set default values for the fields. This is used when you call `seed/1` from the seeder module.
- `run/1` (required) - returns a list of seeds (a call to `Drill.seed/1` function or anything you want to include in the context seed).
  Autogenerated fields such as `:inserted_at` or `:updated_at` may not be defined. The first argument is the `Drill.Context` struct, which
  you can use to get the inserted records from previously run seeder modules (see Usage section above).

## Command line options

- `--repo` - specifies the repository to use
- `--seeds-path` - overrides the default seeds path
- Command line options for `mix app.start` documented [here](https://hexdocs.pm/mix/1.15.2/Mix.Tasks.App.Start.html#module-command-line-options)

## Caveat

Can only be used on Postgres database for now

Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)
and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can
be found at [https://hexdocs.pm/drill](https://hexdocs.pm/drill).