ikalin / faker

Generating fake data with Swift

Faker

This is my very first attempt at writing something that would generate fake data like firstname, lastname, email, internet domain name... It's far from finished BUT since I'm starting to dig the whole experimenting in the open thing... here we go.

It's heavily inspired by the awesome fzaninotto/Faker, I shamelessly borrowed his firstnames and lastnames for now.

Example

let g = Generator.generator()

for _ in 0..<5 {
  print(g["firstname"])
  print(g["lastname"])
  print(g["email"])
  print(g["domain"])
}

Jordan
Cox
[email protected]
yahoo.com

Joe
Cook
[email protected]
gmail.com

Christian
Lewis
[email protected]
gmail.org

Aiden
Mitchell
[email protected]
supercorp.com

Harvey
Chapman
[email protected]
gmail.org

Issues / Concern / Todo

• Is the API nice enough? I like the subscript approach but subscript in Swift 2.0 can't throw so...
• Right now the Email provider depends on the domain, the firstname and the lastname one but it's not obvious and I think there should be some kind of explicit dependency.
• Generating things other than String, I've heard a group of Generics feeling lonely, 😢ing in a corner.

Feedback / Comments ?

I'm Palleas on twitter (and pretty much everywhere else), you can also open an issue.

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