[Idea] Add a foundry console command about foundry HOT 6 CLOSED

For your information, I didn't start working on this as it didn't turn out to be useful in our case. We needed entities is specific states and with specific dependencies, which is impossible to achieve in such a naive generate command.
We ended up creating our own command that used the factories, which worked perfectly and wasn't very hard to create.

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Yeah, that could be useful and should be a simple enough command. To clarify, you can't use doctrine fixtures because you require the amount to be dynamic?

For the command, what about: bin/console foundry:generate App\Factory\UserFactory 50 (first arg the factory class, second arg the amount)?

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you can't use doctrine fixtures because you require the amount to be dynamic?

Yes, exactly. And I want to know some of the data that is generated (e.g. the password of our fixtures are static, but the usernames are faker-generated). So the command would have an --format=json option (or the like) to see the JSON serialize of the generated entities.

For the command, what about: bin/console foundry:generate App\Factory\UserFactory 50 (first arg the factory class, second arg the amount)?

Also fine by me. I often prefer option names over arguments to be more precise about what that "50" means, but arguments for this function are more common the Symfony CLI indeed.

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what that "50" means

What about bin/console foundry:generate App\Factory\UserFactory --amount=50 (amount would be an optional option that defaults to 1)

So the command would have an --format=json option

So the command would output all the generated entities as json?

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So the command would output all the generated entities as json?

Maybe it can optionally integrate with serializer? Normally it would just output "created x entities" and if --format is passed, the serializer is called with the entities and the specified formatter.

I'm not really sure here on the scope of the command (maybe it's easier to discuss these things if I build a small MVP command). But in my use-case, it would be great to get information about the generated entities.

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Maybe it can optionally integrate with serializer?

Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking.

maybe it's easier to discuss these things if I build a small MVP command

Yep, go ahead!

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