Random Beans is a library that generates random Java beans. Generating random data is a common requirement in software testing, and this task can quickly become tedious when the domain model involves many related classes. Random Beans tries to make this task easier.
The java.util.Random
API provides 7 methods to generate random data: nextInt()
, nextLong()
, nextDouble()
, nextFloat()
, nextBytes()
, nextBoolean()
and nextGaussian()
. What if you need to generate a random String
? Or say a random instance of your domain object? Random Beans provides the EnhancedRandom
API that extends java.util.Random
with a method called nextObject(Class type)
. This method is able to generate a random instance of any arbitrary Java bean:
EnhancedRandom enhancedRandom = EnhancedRandomBuilder.aNewEnhancedRandomBuilder().build(); Person person = enhancedRandom.nextObject(Person.class);
The EnhancedRandomBuilder
is the main entry point to configure EnhancedRandom
instances with a fluent API. It allows you to set all parameters to control how random data is generated. In most cases, default options are enough and you can use a static import of the EnhancedRandom.random(Class object)
method:
Person person = random(Person.class);
This snippet will generate a random instance of the Person
type.
Populating a Java object with random data can look easy at first glance, unless your domain model involves many related classes. Let's see a quick example, suppose you have the following domain classes:
With Random Beans, generating a random Person
object is done with the previous snippet. The library will recursively populate all the object graph. Without Random Beans, you would write something like:
Street street = new Street(12, (byte) 1, "Oxford street"); Address address = new Address(street, "123456", "London", "United Kingdom"); Person person = new Person("Foo", "Bar", "foo.bar@gmail.com", Gender.MALE, address);
And if these classes do not provide constructors with parameters (may be some legacy beans you don't have the control over), you would write:
Street street = new Street(); street.setNumber(12); street.setType((byte) 1); street.setName("Oxford street"); Address address = new Address(); address.setStreet(street); address.setZipCode("123456"); address.setCity("London"); address.setCountry("United Kingdom"); Person person = new Person(); person.setFirstName("Foo"); person.setLastName("Bar"); person.setEmail("foo.bar@gmail.com"); person.setGender(Gender.MALE); person.setAddress(address);
As you can see, Random Beans can tremendously reduce the code of generating random data than doing it by hand.
Item | Link |
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Documentation | https://github.com/benas/random-beans/wiki |
Continuous integration | Build job @ Travis CI |
Agile Board | Backlog items @ waffle.io |
Code coverage | |
Dependencies |
3.0.0
: 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT
: You can find more details on how to get startedhere.
You are welcome to contribute to the project with pull requests on GitHub.
If you believe you found a bug, please use theissue tracker.
If you have any question, suggestion, or feedback, do not hesitate to use the Gitter channel of the project.
Thank you all for your contributions!
Random Beans is released under the .
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