Meteor Factory

A package for creating test data or for generating fixtures.

Installation

$ meteor add dburles:factory

Examples

Defining factories

1Authors = new Meteor.Collection('authors');
2Books = new Meteor.Collection('books');
3
4Factory.define('author', Authors, {
5  name: 'John Smith'
6}).after(function(author) {
7  // Do something smart
8});
9
10Factory.define('book', Books, {
11  authorId: Factory.get('author'),
12  name: 'A book',
13  year: function() { return _.random(1900, 2014); }
14});
15
16// We can also extend from an existing factory
17Factory.define('anotherBook', Books, Factory.extend('book', {
18  // ...
19}));

Creating documents

1// Inserts a new book into the books collection
2var book = Factory.create('book');
3
4// New fields can be added or overwritten
5var book = Factory.create('book', { name: 'A better book' });

API

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

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

Factory.get('name')

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

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.

Factory.build('name', doc)

Builds the data structure for this factory

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

Factory.create('name', doc)

Creates (inserts) this factory into mongodb

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

Factory.extend('name', doc)

Extend from an existing factory

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

More

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.