Batch Insert on factory()->count()->create()

[JHWelch]

As was pointed out by Ryuta Hamasaki on twitter currently when you call

User::factory()->count(100)->create();

It will execute 5 separate insert statements. So if you want to execute a single insert with 100 records you have to use something like

User::insert(
    User::factory()->count(100)->make()->toArray();
);

Which is obviously much more verbose. Is there are a reasons factories are constructed like this? I was curious if I could PR this, but didn't want to go too far down the rabbit hole if there was a good reason for this behavior. I would assume it may have something to do with the other more advanced features of factories that may not work as well trying to batch insert them.

[tyabu12]

I think that the reason is that the model creating/created/saving/saved events do not fire on User::insert.

[tyabu12]

And model relations on save also be relevant.

[JHWelch]

Ahh that makes sense to me. It needs to use save to trigger the actions properly. Think you could also batch the relations if you did enough fiddling, but that would be pretty hard.