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Generate Random Objects!
See original GitHub issueHi – thanks for the great library!
It seems it would be extremely easy and useful to implement getting whole random objects – like person, web etc. It would mostly compile a set of random values for their fields.
This would be very useful for testing (suppose somebody wants randomly generated objects). A similar, albeit more advanced, idea would be to have a chance.newObject(obj) where obj is an object describing the structure of the resulting object (i.e., allowing chance to fill in the values of the template).
I would be interested to hear thoughts, and if you agree on the features I can send a pull request:)
Thanks again!
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What about generating objects by their jsonschema or typescript type or class descriptions? This would be valuable in unit tests.
@oliversalzburg I tend to agree with you, generating random objects with so many possible different permutations and requirements would I think be an endless rabbit hole. It’s a rabbit hole I’ve been down before and there is no end in sight. Right now chance js gives you the ability to generate all sort of of data types. Users can use those data types to create there own random objects very easily. I don’t see the advantage of having the library attempt do things like that for you and in the end seems like a futile endeavor.