Just another Data Offline Generator (JDOG) 🐶

• JDOG is a Python library which helps generate a sample data for your projects.

• JDOG can also be run as CLI tool.

• For generating a sample data, the data scheme is provided.

Scheme

• The scheme is provided in JSON format with special placeholders.

• In the output, the placeholders are replaced with some generated data.

Any valid JSON is valid scheme.

How to use it?

Install it

python -m pip install jdog

Prepare a scheme

{
  "{{range(people,4)}}": {
    "name": "{{name}}",
    "age": "{{age}}",
    "address": {
      "city": "{{city}}"
    },
    "car": "{{option(mustang,{{empty}})}}"
  }
}

Use it

from jdog import Jdog

def main():
    jdog = Jdog()
    scheme = ... # your loaded scheme

    # parse scheme
    jdog.parse_scheme(scheme)

    # generate instance
    result = jdog.generate()

    print(result) # result is JSON

And the example result:

{
    "people": [
        {
            "name": "Brandi Young",
            "age": 39,
            "address": {
                "city": "Jamietown"
            },
            "car": "mustang"
        },
        {
            "name": "Michelle Best",
            "age": 70,
            "address": {
                "city": "Port Dustin"
            },
            "car": ""
        },
        {
            "name": "Donald Hernandez",
            "age": 79,
            "address": {
                "city": "East Julieshire"
            },
            "car": "mustang"
        },
        {
            "name": "Kaitlyn Cook",
            "age": 3,
            "address": {
                "city": "Rachelton"
            },
            "car": "mustang"
        }
    ]
}

CLI

Package can be used as cli tool.

Usage: jdog [OPTIONS] SCHEME

Accepts SCHEME and generates new data to stdin or to specified OUTPUT

Options:
  -p, --pretty           Output as pretty JSON.
  -s, --strict           Raise error when no matching placeholder is found.
  -l, --lang TEXT        Language to use.
  --lang-help            Displays available language codes and exit.
  -o, --output FILENAME  Output file where result is written.
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

By default, CLI tool does not save output to file, just print results to standard output.