Pages Dev functions: seeding local KV for local dev

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I start my local pages development thus:

npx wrangler pages dev --kv=TEST -- npm start

But I want to seed kv TEST local namespace with a few values before my functions are called. Is there a way to do this with a local file (e.g. like .dev.vars) or with command line options on wrangler?

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Local kv uses regular files in .wrangler/state/kv/<namespace>. The name of the file is the key, and the content is the value.

So make a file in .wrangler/state/kv/TEST/foo with content bar, and Bob’s your uncle.

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Looks like this may no longer be the case for miniflare/wrangler v3

The state file for KV seems to be a combination of files backed by a sqlite db
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.wrangler/state/v3/kv/MY_KV/db.sqlite
.wrangler/state/v3/kv/MY_KV/db.sqlite-shm
.wrangler/state/v3/kv/MY_KV/db.sqlite-wal
.wrangler/state/v3/kv/MY_KV/blobs/d961e1711e48169b524c91b772c70bac04c4d358e6069db74207755b52eb40bc000011b97d875303