seed or insert using associations

[Nacho Caballero]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out the best way to bulkCreate records with foreign keys. Can somebody please give me a short example? I don't know if I should use something like this:

Post.bulkCreate([

        { name: 'blah'},

        { name: 'bleh'},

      ]).then(function(posts){

          console.log(posts.length + " created");

          posts.map(function(p){return p.addComment({name: "blahblah"});

      })

And should I have this in posts.js or in a migration or seed? If so, how do I access Post from the migration? I'm pretty confused and I haven't been able to find the answer in the documentation. 

[Mick Hansen]

I don't really know of any established patterns for seeding databases.
As for accessing your models from a migration you should be able to import your sequelize models like in any other file since it's just a node.js file.

As for the best way to seed, that's really up to you, you can also use a series of nested create calls.

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Mick Hansen

@mhansendev
mhansen.io