Generates random test data with a variety of built-in generators. Supports calculated properties, flexible string generation, and allows for custom property generation. Provides the ability to decorate the generated output with custom logic.
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DataGenerator
Generates data randomly based on
- Json file.
- Class attributes (since version 1.3).
- Fluent mapping profiles (since version 1.4).
Key features:
- Calculated properties with custom rules.
- Random failures.
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History
Originally this library was created in order to prepare json mocked data for testing api, which was under development. Api was supposed to aggregate data from a bunch of backend systems, while the client had to import several hundred thousand objects to a new frontend cms. It was extremely important to make sure that all data format surprises, which we were getting, could have been handled properly. That's why random failures were added to DG. As well as random sized arrays. At the same time, it was impossible to import an object if all properties contained completely random data. This is where calculated properties hepled.
After that I didn't work with DG for almost two years. During this time a couple of nice tools, helping out with fake data, appeared. Some time ago, I was working on the other issue, where data couldn't be too random again. I realized, that may get its second chance and got back to updating it with new features, primarily focusing on building a more convenient setup, based on the fluent syntax.