CakePHP 3.x - InvalidArgumentException to relate entities

[edsonmgoz]

When I try to relate two entities, faker is not executed correctly and that generates a InvalidArgumentException:

[InvalidArgumentException]

randomNumber() can only generate numbers up to mt_getrandmax()

As a result it does not generate the data in the related table let alone the FK. Clarify that I'm not using the method randomNumber() anywhere in my code. I'm working with CakePHP 3.1.7

Please appreciate it if you could check that detail.

Thank you very much for all your great work!

[fzaninotto]

I don't use CakePHP, can any of the contributors of this part take a look? ping @jadb @daniel-mueller @pomaxa @davidyell

[davidyell]

As a reference, cakephp/bake#162

If you're using Phinx > 0.5.0 you can now use that for your database seeding, which is part of cakephp/migrations.

Using Faker, I used the $faker->numberBetween(1, 4), for some fields, which might give you more reliable results. Although it sounds like you're generating a pretty large dataset.

You might get some more insight from https://github.com/gourmet/faker

When it comes to the entity generation, you'll want to generate your entities in a loop calling the faker methods to populate the entity properties. You should be able to generate the entities as properties of the entity ($entity->tags is an array of Tag entities) and save it all in one go for things which are directly related.

[davidyell]

I've also just found a random Gist with a pre-configured migration which might prove helpful as a reference.

https://gist.github.com/davidyell/e784e70eb06903a790de

[edsonmgoz]

Thank you very much @davidyell !!!