mais-mongoose-seeder

I made this package for academic purposes and it is based on Sam Verschueren's mongoose-seeder package. It happened so that I have use Sam’s package which doesn’t work with current mongoose version. So, I decided to refactor it so that it can work with most mongoose versions as users need. And also, I deleted all the dependencies from the package so that no half npm is installed at the same time.

Thanks to Sam for his great job! He wrote one perfect package in 2015.

I do not in any way pretend to be authorship, since what I did it is basically just a refactoring. But I post this package in open access in case there is a need for someone else to use the mongoose-seeder package.

This library offers a nice, clean and elegant solution that will create the dummy data objects from a JSON file.

Install

npm install mais-mongoose-seeder

How to use

var mongoose = require("mongoose");
// ...
var seeder = require('mais-mongoose-seeder')(mongoose),
    data = require('./data.json');
// connect all models to mongoose
// do all the things you may need
// and when there is time for test data download
// you write
seeder.seed(data).then(function(dbData) {
    // The database objects are stored in dbData
}).catch(function(err) {
    // handle error
});

Important

Unlike the original package mongoose-seeder, mais-mongoose-seeder returns promise and do not accept any callbacks. To work with it use then/catch.

If you want use indexes, you can use mongoose { autoIndex: false } and ensure all indexes before or after seeding the data.

    mongoose.connect(`mongodb://localhost:27017/${namespace}`, { autoIndex: false })
        .then(() => {
            return Model.ensureIndexes();
        })
        .then(() => {
            return seeder.seed(data);
        });

For more detail see the original project mongoose-seeder

Contributors

• Sam Verschueren (Author) [sam.verschueren@gmail.com]
• Max Eremin (Support) [eremin_my@outlook.com]

License

MIT © Max Eremin