I wrote this library some time ago for helping me generating some faked data. It's a quick and ugly implementation at the moment, but it do the job pretty well for me.

Installation

The library is available as a PCL on NuGet.

To install Faker.Portable, run the following command in the Package Manager Console.

PM> Install-Package Faker.Portable

Usage

Creation

To create a faked instance, simply call the Create<T> generic method, where T is the object type :

var value = Faker.Default.Create<string>();

You can also add advice by adding a string :

var value = Faker.Default.Create<string>("name");

Faker will generate POCO and each of its properties and use property name as the advice for generation :

public class MyObject
{
	public string Name { get; set; }
	public string Description { get; set; }
	public MyObject Child { get; set; }
}

var value = Faker.Default.Create<MyObject>();

Note : when a cycle exists (like MyObject.Child previous example), the faked data generation stops with a default depth of 10. You can change this behavior by changing the Faker.Default.MaxScope property.

Customisation

You can register custom behaviors simply by calling the Register<T> generic methods :

Faker.Default.Register<string>(() => "Faker.Portable");
var value = Faker.Default.Create<string>();
// value == "Faker.Portable"

You can add add a condition regarding what the given advice should be :

Faker.Default.Register<string>("title",() => "Faker.Portable");
var value = Faker.Default.Create<string>("Title");
// value == "Faker.Portable"

Or a lambda expression :

Faker.Default.Register<string>((a) => a.ToLower().Trim().Contains("title"),() => "Faker.Portable");
var value = Faker.Default.Create<string>("MainTitle");
// value == "Faker.Portable"

At any time you can remove your custom behaviors by calling Faker.Default.Reset() method.

Supported base types

The library currently supports those base types : string, Uri, bool, char, enum, int, long, byte, DateTime, IDictionary<,>, double, float, IEnumerable<>, List<>, List<>, Stack<>, ObservableCollection<>, Task, Task<>.

Roadmap / ideas

• Cleaning code and improving architecture.
• Adding missing base types.
• Adding more advices support.

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2014-2015 Aloïs Deniel released under the MIT license.