[IDEA] Add priority for seed files (Discussion wanted) about deno-nessie

[kluzzebass]

I've just been prefixing the seed files with a number (like 10_my_seed_file.ts), which seems to work fine.

[ebebbington]

@halvardssm why not take the laravel approach, and the user create/define a base seeder class that runs the other seeders? for example from a php project:

<?php

// database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php

namespace Database\Seeds;

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Seed the application's database.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        // Run in this order
        $this->call(A::class);
        $this->call(B::class);

        $this->call(C::class);
        $this->call(D::class);
    }
}

[halvardssm]

I am inclined to the approach from @ebebbington but the question is then the implementation. I would say that the default behaviour should be the seed name in ascending order, and then an optional property in the config object (or a CLI flag) can give a path to a seed runner file. The only thing on my end which I am not too sure about is whether this should be a class or a function, but seeing as Nessie is fully class-based, we might as well continue on this path. I won't have time to implement this in the forseable future, so anyone are free to pick this up and send a PR :)