{"id":358,"date":"2014-08-07T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasgr.im\/shares\/?p=358"},"modified":"2018-05-06T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:30:22","slug":"tdd-on-laravel-heres-a-tip-to-make-jeffrey-ways-factory-play-nice-with-uuids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasgr.im\/shares\/2014\/tdd-on-laravel-heres-a-tip-to-make-jeffrey-ways-factory-play-nice-with-uuids\/","title":{"rendered":"TDD on Laravel? Here’s a Tip to Make Jeffrey Way’s “Factory” Play Nice with UUIDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Way’s Test Helpers Package<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Problem: the Factory class does not support UUID\/GUID generation, and will mess with your tests by filling your foreign and primary keys with what it considers “strings”, stuff like “abcdef-1” or “ouibuh-3”. <\/p>\n

public function getDataType($col)<br>\n{<br>\n    return $col-&gt;getType()-&gt;getName();<br>\n}<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Here’s the modified version:<\/p>\n
public function getDataType($col) {<br>\n    $type = $col-&gt;getType()-&gt;getName();<br>\n    if ($type === 'string' &amp;&amp; $col-&gt;getLength() === 36) {<br>\n        return 'uuid';<br>\n    }<br>\n    return $type;<br>\n}<\/pre><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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