Meteor Factory

A package for creating test data or for generating fixtures.

Installation

meteor add dburles:factory

Table of Contents

• Examples
  • Defining factories
  • Creating documents
• API
  • define
  • get
  • build
  • buildAsync
  • tree
  • treeAsync
  • create
  • createAsync
  • extend
• Contributing
• Other

Examples

Defining factories

Authors = new Meteor.Collection("authors");
Books = new Meteor.Collection("books");

Factory.define("author", Authors, {
  name: "John Smith",
}).after((author) => {
  // Do something smart
});

Factory.define("book", Books, {
  authorId: Factory.get("author"),
  name: "A book",
  year() {
    return _.random(1900, 2014);
  },
});

// We can also extend from an existing factory
Factory.define(
  "anotherBook",
  Books,
  Factory.extend("book", {
    // ...
  })
);

Creating documents

// Ex. 1: Inserts a new book into the books collection
const book = Factory.create("book");

// Ex. 2: New fields can be added or overwritten
const book = Factory.create("book", { name: "A better book" });

API

Note: When calling Factory.create('book') both the Book and an Author are created. The newly created Author _id will then be automatically assigned to that field. In the case of calling Factory.build('book') as no insert operations are run, the _id will be faked.

define

Factory.define('name', Collection, doc).after(doc => { ... })

• name
  • A name for this factory
• Collection
  • A meteor collection
• doc
  • Document object
• .after hook (Optional)
  • Returns the newly inserted document after calling Factory.create

get

Factory.get('name')

Returns the instance of name. Typical usage is to specify a relationship between collections as seen in the Book example above.

build

Factory.build('name', doc)

Builds the data structure for this factory

• name
  • The name defined for this factory
• doc (Optional)
  • Document object

buildAsync

Asynchronous version of build. Returns a Promise.

tree

Factory.tree('name', doc)

Builds an object tree without _id fields. Useful for generating data for templates.

• name
  • The name define for this factory
• doc (Optional)
  • Document object

Example:

Factory.define("author", Authors, {
  name: "John Smith",
});

Factory.define("book", Books, {
  name: "A book",
  author: Factory.get("author"),
});

const book = Factory.tree("book");

book then equals:

{
  name: 'A book',
  author: {
    name: 'John Smith'
  }
}

treeAsync

Asynchronous version of tree. Returns a Promise.

create

Factory.create('name', doc)

Creates (inserts) this factory into mongodb

• name

  • The name defined for this factory

• doc (Optional)

  • Document object

createAsync

Asynchronous version of create. Returns a Promise.

extend

Factory.extend('name', doc)

Extend from an existing factory

• name
  • The name defined for this factory
• doc (Optional)
  • Document object

Contributing

Testing

Please submit new pull requests with tests if applicable. To run the test suite, run the following command:

meteor test-packages ./

Then open a browser at localhost:3000 (by default).

Other

Fake makes a great companion package. See https://atmospherejs.com/anti/fake

License

MIT. (c) Percolate Studio

factory was developed as part of the Verso project.