Feature: load seeder in order

[vmonjaret]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would be cool to not care about the order to load the seeds. Something similar exist with Symfony, see https://symfony.com/bundles/DoctrineFixturesBundle/current/index.html#loading-the-fixture-files-in-order

Describe the solution you'd like

The best solution would be to have a method like getDependencies that would refer to seed that are required for the current seeder. After that build a tree in order to play the seeders with the right order.

Describe alternatives you've considered

For now the only solution I see is to expose a single seeder file marked as main that orchestrate the call to my others seeder

Additional context

DoctrineFixtureBundle : https://symfony.com/bundles/DoctrineFixturesBundle/current/index.html#loading-the-fixture-files-in-order

[tada5hi]

Still open as a feature. Until a getDependencies()-style graph exists, two ordering mechanisms already work: an explicit seeds: [SeederA, SeederB, …] array runs in the given order, and file-based seeds run ordered by file name — so a timestamp/number prefix (as seed create generates) controls execution order deterministically.