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I came across a situation where I wanted to test enter a bunch of fake users in my user-management system. I didn’t want to have to come up with a dozen or so fake names/usernames/passwords/addresses/emails/phone numbers so I came across this in my travels: http://www.json-generator.com/
It’s pretty glorious and will come up with some great formatted output like so:
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[ { "_id": "54669e8eeed05ad0561d30d0", "index": 0, "guid": "3bb924c2-995f-476f-863f-9a62033d1f3b", "isActive": true, "balance": "$2,907.88", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 27, "eyeColor": "blue", "name": { "first": "Lilian", "last": "Pace" }, "company": "FURNITECH", "email": "lilian.pace@furnitech.ca", "phone": "+1 (862) 598-2996", "address": "978 Ferry Place, Cuylerville, South Dakota, 5940", "favoriteFruit": "banana" }, { "_id": "54669e8e0d970b7fe16048f9", "index": 1, "guid": "f399dd7a-9dec-41d1-b0e2-3a0a01b35555", "isActive": true, "balance": "$1,486.03", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 38, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": { "first": "Newton", "last": "Oneill" }, "company": "ZYPLE", "email": "newton.oneill@zyple.com", "phone": "+1 (839) 580-2988", "address": "180 Harman Street, Manchester, Oklahoma, 5221", "favoriteFruit": "banana" }, { "_id": "54669e8e6140397e656db5d9", "index": 2, "guid": "6c818c1d-3a97-49a0-89bf-7a2ec1c4a746", "isActive": true, "balance": "$1,079.89", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 36, "eyeColor": "blue", "name": { "first": "Sofia", "last": "Manning" }, "company": "ACUMENTOR", "email": "sofia.manning@acumentor.info", "phone": "+1 (921) 570-3737", "address": "861 Calyer Street, Southview, Delaware, 9587", "favoriteFruit": "apple" }, { "_id": "54669e8e5174de90cf0bd74b", "index": 3, "guid": "c58d8e45-5a00-4369-b7f3-bbcee65085e0", "isActive": false, "balance": "$2,312.17", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 25, "eyeColor": "brown", "name": { "first": "Sonja", "last": "Banks" }, "company": "MICRONAUT", "email": "sonja.banks@micronaut.io", "phone": "+1 (983) 427-3432", "address": "829 Ainslie Street, Forbestown, Hawaii, 171", "favoriteFruit": "banana" }, { "_id": "54669e8efc123c78cd4e235d", "index": 4, "guid": "c36aeb58-5b71-43c1-b0b6-87dd0e251e19", "isActive": true, "balance": "$2,385.42", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 21, "eyeColor": "green", "name": { "first": "Ruth", "last": "Barry" }, "company": "QUOTEZART", "email": "ruth.barry@quotezart.biz", "phone": "+1 (896) 527-2764", "address": "915 Village Court, Wanamie, California, 2277", "favoriteFruit": "strawberry" }, { "_id": "54669e8e20d7b382986e86f5", "index": 5, "guid": "3a2efd1b-fadb-476f-bc71-7699c34ea7a9", "isActive": false, "balance": "$3,487.29", "picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32", "age": 24, "eyeColor": "blue", "name": { "first": "Jacobs", "last": "Downs" }, "company": "KOZGENE", "email": "jacobs.downs@kozgene.me", "phone": "+1 (884) 550-3072", "address": "873 Prospect Street, Foscoe, Pennsylvania, 6154", "favoriteFruit": "banana" } ] |
I used this recipe:
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[ '{{repeat(5, 7)}}', { _id: '{{objectId()}}', index: '{{index()}}', guid: '{{guid()}}', isActive: '{{bool()}}', balance: '{{floating(1000, 4000, 2, "$0,0.00")}}', picture: 'http://placehold.it/32x32', age: '{{integer(20, 40)}}', eyeColor: '{{random("blue", "brown", "green")}}', name: { first: '{{firstName()}}', last: '{{surname()}}' }, company: '{{company().toUpperCase()}}', email: function (tags) { // Email tag is deprecated, because now you can produce an email as simple as this: return (this.name.first + '.' + this.name.last + '@' + this.company + tags.domainZone()).toLowerCase(); }, phone: '+1 {{phone()}}', address: '{{integer(100, 999)}} {{street()}}, {{city()}}, {{state()}}, {{integer(100, 10000)}}', favoriteFruit: function (tags) { var fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'strawberry']; return fruits[tags.integer(0, fruits.length - 1)]; } } ] |
Pretty neat eh? You can spit it out to JSON text files and have at them! Working smarter and not harder strikes again!
