Field 'foo' doesn't have a default value

[dreamingmind]

After updating I started getting 'Field 'foo' doesn't have a default value' errors on previously passing tests.

Wasn't the system glossing over errors like this when make()ing records?

After updating to 0.2.14 (that's when I noticed it), tests that were previously running started throwing this error.

My code was in a bit of chaos at that point so I'm not 100% sure about this.

I'm on 0.2.15 now

[dreamingmind]

As I look deeper I see both this section on validation behaior which says:

all validations are deactivated when creating CakePHP entities
and persisting them to the database.

and the comment on setDefaultTemplate():

* Defines the default values of you factory. Useful for
* not nullable fields. You may use methods of the factory here too.

So my tests may have been previously passing due to some interaction related to the old cake factories because I had both listeners turned on at that point.

[pabloelcolombiano]

Let us know, if you are experiencing further issues there.

[dreamingmind]

This is an ongoing issue. Where previously I did not have to create any code in setDefaultTemplate() now I must define defaults for columns that don't otherwise have them.

[pabloelcolombiano]

setDefaultTemplate() is there to assign default values of your factory, as you write.

What is the issue you are actually having? Is there anyting we can improve or solve?

[dreamingmind]

This is my database schema. It has columns that do not have defaults but are not allowed to be NULL.

This is my test class:

<?php

namespace App\Test\TestCase\Model\Table;

use App\Test\Factory\PersonFactory;

class PeopleTableTest extends \Cake\TestSuite\TestCase
{

    public function testMake()
    {
        $person = PersonFactory::make(1)->persist();
    }
}

Running the test results in this error.

My expectation based on the documentation and my previous experience is that the entity could be created without error in this circumstance.

My factory is baked from the most recent version:

[pabloelcolombiano]

I do not know how your code was before, but this should normally not have worked before either.

In your case, you should have in your factory:

 protected function setDefaultTemplate(): void
    {
        $this->setDefaultData(function(Generator $faker) {
            return [
                'first_name' => $faker->firstName,
                'last_name' => $faker->lastName,
                'role' => $faker->text(50)
            ];
        });
    }

Your test could then look like this:

class PeopleTableTest extends \Cake\TestSuite\TestCase
{

    public function testMake()
    {
        $person = PersonFactory::make()->persist();
    }
}

or like that, if you want to control the value of the field role:

class PeopleTableTest extends \Cake\TestSuite\TestCase
{

    public function testMake()
    {
        $person = PersonFactory::make(['role' => 'Some role'])->persist();
    }
}

Does this make sense?

[dreamingmind]

Perfect sense, thanks.