README

This package provides tools to help with seeders in Laravel projects and packages.

Installation

Use composer to install this package:

composer require riddlestone/laravel-package-seeders

Usage

Auto Seeders

This package provides a way to have a single seeder run seeders from multiple different packages within your project.

Simply tag your seeders as AutoSeeders in a service provider, and then the AutoSeeders seeder will include them when it is run.

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Riddlestone\LaravelPackageSeeders\Contracts\AutoSeeder;

class MyServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function register(): void
    {
        $this->app->singleton(MySeeder::class);
        $this->app->tag(MySeeder::class, AutoSeeder::class)
    }
}

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Riddlestone\LaravelPackageSeeders\Seeders\AutoSeeders;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run(): void
    {
        $this->call(AutoSeeders::class);
    }
}

Versioned Data Seeders

Versioned data seeders let you insert, update, or delete (with SoftDeletes) data from a data set in your model. They are done using your model, so any mutators or casting in your model will be applied.

To extend and use this seeder you will need to provide the following:

• The model the data is for (getModelClass())
• The attributes to identify a row by (getLookupAttributes())
• The attribute to identify a version by (getVersionAttribute()), this defaults to "version" if not supplied
• The data to update the database to (getData())

For example,

use Riddlestone\LaravelPackageSeeders\Seeders\VersionedDataSeeder;

class ToySeeder extends VersionedDataSeeder
{
    protected function getModelClass(): string
    {
        return Toy::class;
    }

    protected function getLookupAttributes(): array
    {
        return ['key'];
    }
    
    protected function getData() : array{
        return [
            [
                'key' => 'spinning-top',
                'version' => 1,
                'name' => 'Spinning Top',
                'color' => 'red',
            ],
            [
                'key' => 'pogo-stick',
                'version' => 1,
                'name' => 'Pogo Stick',
                'color' => 'blue',
            ],
            [
                'key' => 'racing-car',
                'version' => 1,
                'name' => 'Racing Car',
                'color' => 'red',
                'deleted_at' => '2025-09-01 00:00:00',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Json Seeders

JsonSeeder is an extension of VersionedDataSeeder, which replaces getData() with getFilename(). This allows you to separate the data from the seeder by providing the path to a JSON file containing your data.

use Riddlestone\LaravelPackageSeeders\Seeders\JsonSeeder;

class ToySeeder extends JsonSeeder
{
    protected function getModelClass(): string
    {
        return Toy::class;
    }

    protected function getLookupAttributes(): array
    {
        return ['key'];
    }
    
    protected function getFilename() : array{
        return __DIR__ . '/toys.json';
    }
}

[
    {
        "key": "spinning-top",
        "version": 1,
        "name": "Spinning Top",
        "color": "red"
    },
    {
        "key": "pogo-stick",
        "version": 1,
        "name": "Pogo Stick",
        "color": "blue"
    },
    {
        "key": "racing-car",
        "version": 1,
        "name": "Racing Car",
        "color": "red",
        "deleted_at": "2025-09-01 00:00:00"
    }
]