How would you go about and seed a database when it...

# ktor

[Christiano]

How would you go about and seed a database when it's first being created?
I don't want to drop all tables every time the server starts up, but when I decide to clear the complete database I'd like to seed it with some mock data.

What would be the prefered way to do that? Should I do this after the database.connect function? Would you just use insertAndIgnore, or is there some kind of callback on the database that states that it has been created instead of just connected? 🤔

[jean-paul]

I'm still learning, so my apologies if I lead you astray 😉
The way I am currently doing it was in some tutorial, and it called apply on the instantiated service in the Application.configureRouting() definition. Something like this:

fun Application.configureRouting() {
  val dao: DAOFacade = DAOImpl()
    .apply {
      runBlocking {
        if (allPosts().isEmpty()) {
          addNewPost("PostTitle", "Post Content")
          addNewPost("PostTitle2", "Post 2 Content")
        }
     }
  }
}