Faker Images

[AnthonySGeorge]

Description:
When I add Faker.Image() to the _data/data.json it creates the src link but no image.
An example src it generates is : /var/folders/7z/jk7wgm2x16l_vl_qs9r0vxmm0000gq/T/7c7e4c2e39293c4027572b87f8c3d7c6.jpg

[illepic]

Noting here @AnthonySGeorge that we're looking to address this in the v10 release and backport it to v9. Since this is PL based, you obviously won't be able to just update a dependency but we'll at least have a solution.

[illepic]

A follow up and answer as to what's going on:

Faker.image() let's us do two main things:

1. It writes an image file to any path on a filesystem
2. It let's the actual return path represent a different path

In other words, Faker.image() should let us write a file to /dist/images/random.jpg but return a value from data.json as, say, just images/random.jpg. In the current state of Pattern Lab Starter - which is based off of the Drupal Edition of Pattern Lab which in turn uses the PHP Faker plugin - this is not happening.

Captured in this issue here you'll see that the PHP Faker plugin is NOT taking any other arguments other than the first sent to it, meaning that writing a file to a filesystem works, but returning a path to Pattern Lab that is usable does not.

@AnthonySGeorge, I think you'll find that the actual image is writing to the filesystem, but it's of course at a path unusable by your running Pattern Lab.

But this does bring up a more important point: don't use Faker.image(). It will write dozens or hundreds of images to a filesystem. It also adds a lot of time to the PL compile time.

Solution: use Faker.imageUrl() instead.