Seeders

Seeders are just normal Laravel seeders. The default (recommended) folder for db seeds is <module_root>/resources/database/seeds

The only difference compared to seeders placed in your project's database/seeds folder is that app seeders use no namespace.

Possible Solutions For Class Autoloading

Use Nice Namespaces (Best)

1. Put your seeder class in the resources/database/seeds folder.
2. Use namespace Vendor\Module\Seeds.
3. Add the namespace in composer.json:

"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "Vendor\\Module\\": "src",
        "Vendor\\Module\\Seeds\\": "src/resources/database/seeds"
    }
}

Then you can either added the seeder to the main DatabaseSeeder's run method $this->call(\Vendor\Module\Seeds\YourSeeder::class) or invoke explicitly with artisan:

php artisan db:seed --class="\Vendor\Module\Seeds\YourSeeder"

Use Ugly Namespaces (Easy)

1. Put your seeder class in the resources/database/seeds folder.
2. Use namespace Vendor\Module\resources\database\seeds.

Adding to app's main the seeder:

class DatabaseSeeder extends \Illuminate\Database\Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        $this->call(\Vendor\Module\resources\database\seeds\YourSeeder::class);        
    }
}

Invoking with artisan:

php artisan db:seed --class="\Vendor\Module\resources\database\seeds\YourSeeder"

Use No Namespace (Simple)

If you're sure you won't conflict with other seeders having the same name, then you can go without seeders having namespaces.

1. Put your seeder class in the resources/database/seeds folder.
2. Use a composer json like this:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "src/resources/database/seeds"    
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "Vendor\\Module\\": "src"
    }
}

Adding to DatabaseSeeder $this->call(YourSeeder::class);

Invoking explicitely with artisan:

php artisan db:seed --class=YourSeeder

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