built-in seeding functionality

[TheMagicNacho]

Describe the feature

I am proposing that Gorm has a built in Seeding method so that developers can quickly seed databases within gorm without having to re-create the functionality.

Example Proposed Usage:

// make class (or interface) that is the same shape as your database
type person struct {
    name string
    age  int
}

// create an array of 'dummy' data using the object 
seedArray := [3]person{
    {
        name: "John Doe",
        age: 18
    },
    {
        name: "Jane Doe",
        age: 22
    },
    {
        name: "Steve Doe",
        age: 32
    }
}

// pass the array into a seeding method
DB.Seed(seedSlice)

Motivation

Seeding is a required process during the development process, and during platform migrations. Creating a seeding method will improve the developer's quality of life, and could increase the user-ship of GORM and GoLang as a whole.

Related Issues

Developers have asked if the functionality exists.

Issue 5274

Issue 1539

Some Developers have written Work around Tutorials

Tutorial

[Chaostheorie]

This sounds like functionality that should be done in a separate library and not as part of an ORM. Maybe an integration of the existing projects for seeding, like jaswdr/faker, with gorm, similar to datatypes, might be a better fit instead.

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[saeidee]

Seeding seems to not be the responsibility of ORM, however, feel free to implement it as a plugin. https://gorm.io/docs/write_plugins.html