Seeding blocks

[stuartmcgill]

I have a separate question about seeding, and wondered if anyone could give me a push in the right direction. I'm trying to seed (for production) a singleton module (a PrivacyPolicy) with some text-only blocks (no media or files). I've got as far as the following, where $blocks is just the JSON from twill_blocks.content in my test environment.

for ($index = 0; $index < count($blocks); $index++) {
  Block::create([
      'blockable_id' => $privacyPolicy->id,
      'blockable_type' => PrivacyPolicy::class,
      'position' => $index + 1,
      'content' => $blocks[$index],
      'type' => 'text',
      'editor_name' => 'default',
  ]);
}

This sort of does the job, but I feel like there must be a better way... This is relying too much on Twill internals, and also doesn't create a revision.

I tried hooking into what the admin front-end does when it saves a block (e.g. directly calling afterSaveHandleBlocks() on PrivacyPageRepository), but I couldn't get this to work either.

Thank you (again) in advance for any help you can give.

[stuartmcgill]

Actually I've just found this on Discord i.e. to call $privacyPolicy->blocks()->create() instead. This is nicer than what I was doing, and although it doesn't create a new revision history entry it's fine for what I need it for.