StatusFactory.php

<?php

use Faker\Generator as Faker;
use App\Util\Lexer\{AutoLink,Extractor};
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Model Factories
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This directory should contain each of the model factory definitions for
| your application. Factories provide a convenient way to generate new
| model instances for testing / seeding your application's database.
|
*/

$factory->define(App\Status::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    $count = App\User::count();
    $uid = mt_rand(1,$count);
    $mention = mt_rand(0,1) === 1 ? '@'.App\User::orderByRaw('rand()')->first()->username.' ' : '';
    $hashtags = ' #test #factoryGenerated';
    $tweet_raw = $mention . $faker->text(140) . $hashtags;
    $tweet_rendered = AutoLink::create()->autoLink($tweet_raw);
    $entities = json_encode(Extractor::create()->extract($tweet_raw));
    return [
        'user_id' => $uid,
        'content' => $tweet_raw,
        'rendered' => $tweet_rendered,
        'reply_id' => null,
        'scope' => 0,
        'source' => 'web',
        'verb'  => 'post',
        'object_type' => 'note',
        'entities' => $entities,
    ];
});