working through how to seed database

server/Persistence/DbContext.cs

@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
-using System.Threading.Tasks;
-using Microsoft.OpenApi.Writers;
-using MongoDB.Driver;
+using MongoDB.Driver;
 using server.Models;
 
 namespace server.Persistence

server/Persistence/Seed/Seeder.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using MongoDB.Driver;
+using server.Models;
+
+namespace server.Persistence.Seed
+{
+    public class Seeder
+    {
+        private readonly IMongoClient client;
+        private readonly IMongoDatabase database;
+        private readonly IConfiguration configuration;
+        private readonly IMongoCollection<Season> Seasons;
+
+        public Seeder()
+        {
+            configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
+                .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
+                .Build();
+
+            client = new MongoClient(configuration.GetSection("MongoDBSettings:ConnectionString").Value);
+            database = client.GetDatabase(configuration.GetSection("MongoDBSettings:DatabaseName").Value);
+            Seasons = database.GetCollection<Season>(configuration.GetSection("MongoDBSettings:SeasonsCollection").Value);
+        }
+
+        public async Task SeedAsync()
+        {
+            var seasons = await Seasons.Find(season => true).ToListAsync();
+            foreach (var season in seasons)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine(season);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

server/Program.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
 using Microsoft.OpenApi.Models;
 using server.Persistence;
 using server.Persistence.Repositories;
+using server.Persistence.Seed;
+
+if (args.Length == 1 && args[0].ToLower() == "seed")
+{
+    var seeder = new Seeder();
+    _ = seeder.SeedAsync();
+}
 
 var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
 
@@ -42,3 +49,5 @@ app.UseAuthorization();
 app.MapControllers();
 
 app.Run();
+
+