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Factory "user" not found, hint says Known factories: (none), but the file exports it

Given I generate a "user" from the factory as "newUser"

DATASET_NOT_FOUND: Factory "user" not found.
  hint: Known factories: (none). Define it in data/factories.ts.

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• Accepted answer

  Known factories: (none) means the map came back empty, not that the name is wrong. There are two ways to get an empty map and neither of them is a missing file:

  1. data.factories is not set in sdods.project.yaml. With no path configured the loader returns an empty map without looking at anything, and the fallback text in the hint is a suggestion, not the path it tried.
  2. The path is set, the file is there, but it does not default-export the map. A named export const user = ... is not found — the loader takes default or a named factories export.

  yamlCopy

  data:
    factories: ./data/factories.ts

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  import { defineFactories } from '@sdods/core/data';
  
  export default defineFactories({
    user: (f) => ({ email: f.internet.email(), firstName: f.person.firstName() }),
  });

  Once it loads, the hint becomes useful: it lists the names it does know, which is usually enough to spot a typo.

  PVanswered by Priya VenkateshSDODS team

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• And the path resolves against the project root, not the repo root, so ./data/factories.ts means projects/<slug>/data/factories.ts. We had it pointing one directory too high for a month and never noticed because the empty map is not an error.

  KPanswered by Kostya Petrov

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