Is it possible to change the ID for an item programatically when creating it?

[ametis70]

I'm trying to make a script that seeds a few collections. So far I was able to make it work for collections that don't have relationships with other collections, but when I tried to reference some upload that belongs to another collection, I realized that the ID saved on the seed was different to the one in the upload when I ran the script to recreate all the data on the db.

Naturally, I tried passing the ID to the data object when creating the documents, but payload ignored it. After that, I tried enabling custom IDs in the collection but it still didn't work. I also tried running payload.update right after payload.create but that didn't work either. My last experiment was with an afterOperation hook, but it also failed.

For the record I'm using MongoDB, and I was able to do this on the past (using Payload 1.8.3). Maybe after so many versions it's no longer possible? I found #6884 but I thought that maybe it's an issue exclusive to Postgres.

Thanks!

[DanRibbens]

Passing id in your data object on create should be all you need to do. Can you share your id field config and your code calling create?

[ametis70]

As I couldn't make it work, I never made a commit with that code and ended up using mongo-seeding. I'm kinda rushing something right now, but I'll make a repo to try to reproduce it in a few days, because I'm interested in making a plugin for Payload that does this in a db agnostic way