Generating and seeding multi-tenant seed data for development

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Hi

I am not able to find the right way of generating and seeding multi-tenant (schema based) data for development.

There are 2 problems

  1. Generating data:

changeset_generator in Ash.Generator seems to be meant for testing data. Placing the generatpr code in “lib” folder makes the code unsafe in production. How can I use generator for dev data?

After the data is generated, how can I pass tenant/actor to insert that in database? Right now, I am bot able to read Users as the authorizer in App.Accounts.User is blocking the access to User.

  1. Seeding data:
    If I use the priv/repo/seeds.exs for seeing data, how can I run it for multiple tenants? Like tenant_migrations are run for each tenant, is there is similar provision for tenant_seeds?

Thanks

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You’d typically put this logic inside of test/support, i.e test/support/generator.ex, and then in your mix.exs you’d have something like:

  def project do
    [
      ...
      elixirc_paths: elixirc_paths(Mix.env()),
     ...
    ]
  end

  # Specifies which paths to compile per environment.
  defp elixirc_paths(:test), do: ["lib", "test/support"]
  defp elixirc_paths(_), do: ["lib"]

Indicating to compile the files in test/support during testing.

You can use the option authorize?: false when calling actions to bypass authorization. This can help with reading data during setup for example.

For running seeds, your best bet is to define a function in your test/support code that takes a tenant, and then call that with a tenant or tenants to set up data for specific tenants.

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