sails-seed

SAILS-SEED

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Installation

npm install sails-seed

Depending on you version of sails, sails-seed is treated differently On install, a config/seed.js is created. Here you will put your seeding data.

Sails 0.11

For Sails 0.11 and greater there is nothing further to do. Sails-seed runs as an installable hook.

Sails 0.10

For Sails 0.10 and previous, a file of api/hook/seed/index.js is created on installation. No further configuration is required, but this file is necessary for the data to seed.

Usage

Place your seeding data in the config/seed.js file. For exampe, for a Person model, your config/seed.js file might look like

module.exports.seed = {
  person: [
    {
      firstName: 'Luke',
      lastName:  'Skywalker'
    },
    {
      firstName: 'Darth',
      lastName:  'Vader'
    }
  ]
}

By default, sails-seed will overwrite the data which is present. If you would not like your seed to overwrite, your new config/seed.js file might look like

module.exports.seed = {
  person: {
    data: [
      {
        firstName: 'Luke',
        lastName:  'Skywalker'
      },
      {
        firstName: 'Darth',
        lastName:  'Vader'
      }
    ],
    overwrite: false
  }
}

Author

M. Elliot Frost, CEO of Frostware