seed:run completes successfully but there is no added rows.

Hey,

I’m migrating my seeding from sequelize (which currently works) to this package. I’m a bit confused here, I’m running the following seeder on a docker migration container. There is another container that also connects to typeorm which works fine, this is the main connection where all the app work is done. I assume you can have multiple typeorm connections active at once, anyways so the seed:run completes without any indication of failure but there are no rows added.

Here’s my ormconfig.js

module.exports = {
  type: 'postgres',
  port: 5432,
  database: process.env.DATABASE_DB,
  username: process.env.DATABASE_USER,
  password: process.env.DATABASE_PASSWORD,
  host: process.env.DATABASE_HOST,
  synchronize: true,
  logging: false,
  entities: ['../graphql/src/orm/models/artist.ts'],
  // "migrations": [
  //    "src/migration/**/*.ts"
  // ],
  // "subscribers": [
  //    "src/subscriber/**/*.ts"
  // ]
  seeds: ['src/seeds/*{.ts,.js}'],
  // "factories": ['src/factories/**/*{.ts,.js}'],
};

Heres the seeder I’m running.

import { Factory, Seeder } from 'typeorm-seeding';
import { Connection } from 'typeorm';
import { Artist } from '../../graphql/src/orm/models';

export default class CreateUsers implements Seeder {
  public async run(factory: Factory, connection: Connection): Promise<any> {
    await connection
      .createQueryBuilder()
      .insert()
      .into(Artist)
      .values([
        {
          id: '0b600e0a-96d0-4ec0-bc94-2587a6b3507a',
          name: 'Various Artists',
          description: '',
          profileImageStoragePathLarge:
            'test',
          profileImageStoragePathSmall:
            'test',
          profileImageStoragePathThumb:
            'test',
          profileImageUrlLarge:
            'test',
          profileImageUrlSmall:
            'test',
          profileImageUrlThumb:
            'test',
          createdAt: new Date(),
          updatedAt: new Date(),
          followers: 0,
        },
      ])
      .execute();
  }
}

How can the seed complete sucessfully but there be no rows?

[malteneuss]

I had a the same problem and debugged it by using the default folder structure src/seeds/.. and src/factories/.. with ormconfig.js being

...
   seeds: ['src/seeds/**/*{.ts,.js}'],
  factories: ['src/factories/**/*{.ts,.js}'],
...

as in the guides. There i saw the CLI actually working: When the CLI recognizes seed files like add-users.seed.ts, you see

✔ Database connected
✔ Seeder AddUsers executed
👍  Finished Seeding

in the log. Turns out i had a typo in my custom seed path property in my ormconfig.js file.

[rtman]

Just fyi that @malteneuss is correct, but this package should say if it cannot locate any seed files instead of displaying Finished Seeding when it didn’t find anything to seed:

One might think that it was able to locate the files and just didn’t log them individually.