I am new to testing in laravel and I'm trying to create dummy data using Model Factories. I have three tables firms
, clients
, and briefs
. A firm has many clients and a client has many briefs. The format of clients
and briefs
is very similar. They both have foreign keys firm_id
and client_id
respectfully. Whilst doing a phpunit test I want to create an instance of a client from a firm and an instance of a brief from the client using the following code:
$client = $firm->clients()
->save(factory(App\SearchFirmClient::class)->create());
$brief = $client->briefs()
->save(factory(App\SearchFirmBrief::class)->create());
$client
is created without a fuss but $brief
throws up an error:
Illuminate\Database\QueryException: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'client_id' cannot be null (SQL: insert into `search_firms_briefs` (`user_id`, `title`, `description`, `contact_id`, `client_id`, `updated_at`, `created_at`) values (1, Et in amet., Quo soluta ut impedit nesciunt autem. Laborum aperiam est non molestiae animi non quod. Explicabo eligendi doloribus ex quia vitae placeat ut., 0, , 2016-03-30 10:06:34, 2016-03-30 10:06:34))
The formats of both tables:
Schema::create('search_firms_clients', function(Blueprint $table)
{
$table->increments('client_id');
$table->integer('search_firm_id')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('search_firm_id')->references('id')->on('search_firms')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->string('name');
$table->softDeletes();
$table->timestamps();
});
Schema::create('search_firms_briefs', function(Blueprint $table)
{
$table->increments('brief_id');
$table->integer('client_id')->unsigned();
$table->foreign('client_id')->references('client_id')->on('search_firms_clients')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->string('title');
$table->softDeletes();
$table->timestamps();
});
The model factory for each:
$factory->define(App\SearchFirmClient::class, function ($faker) {
return [
'name' => $faker->company,
'email' => $faker->companyEmail,
'phone' => $faker->phoneNumber,
'address' => $faker->address,
'website' => $faker->url,
];
});
$factory->define(App\SearchFirmBrief::class, function ($faker) {
return [
'user_id' => 1,
'title' => $faker->sentence(3),
'description' => $faker->text(),
'contact_id' => 0,
];
});
The relationships:
class SearchFirm extends Model
{
protected $table = 'search_firms';
protected $primaryKey = 'id';
public function clients() {
return $this->hasMany('SearchFirmClient', 'search_firm_id');
}
}
class SearchFirmClient extends Model
{
use SoftDeletes;
protected $table = 'search_firms_clients';
protected $primaryKey = 'client_id';
protected $dates = [ 'deleted_at' ];
public function briefs()
{
return $this->hasMany('SearchFirmBrief', 'client_id')->orderBy( 'updated_at', 'desc');
}
}
class SearchFirmBrief extends Model
{
use SoftDeletes;
protected $table = 'search_firms_briefs';
protected $primaryKey = 'brief_id';
protected $touches = array('client');
protected $dates = [ 'deleted_at'];
public function client() {
return $this->belongsTo('SearchFirmClient', 'client_id');
}
}
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