randomElement and named relations

[pbowyer]

Alice has support for picking a random item using the wildcard syntax: @element*. This works great when I've generated fixtures using a loop, ending up with @element1, @element2 ... @elementN.

Where values aren't random (e.g. settings, statuses) and I manually create the fixtures, I give them descriptive names so I can easily reference them in other manually created fixtures. E.g.:

App\Entity\Status:
    success:
        ...
    failure: # Easier to remember than @status2
        ...

But in the generated fixtures, I need to pick a random status.

I have tried:
<randomElement([@success, @failure])>, <randomElement(['@success', '@failure'])>, defining a parameter that's an array of the statuses; all give the error:

Expected argument of type "App\Entity\Setting\Status or null", "Nelmio\Alice\Definition\Value\FixtureReferenceValue" given at property path "status".

Is it possible to pick a random element from a user-defined set?

[theofidry]

It should be possible, that's a proper bug that needs to be solved

[pifaace]

I confirm, I created a custom provider and a fixture like this :

validationGroup1:
      validationGroupId: 'validationGroup1'
      name: 'sweet validatonGroup1'
      persons: <personCollection([@johnDoe, @janeDoe])>
      orderables: '<orderableCollection([@flyer])>'

and the arg in my personCollection method is an array of "FixtureReferenceValue". It doesn't convert the references to object

[theofidry]

Closed by #984