peteraba / phony

tiny command line fake data generator

phony

Tiny command line program that accepts a template and outputs fake data.

Examples

# publish email to nsq every 1ms.
echo '{"email":"{{email}}", "subject": "welcome!"}' \
  | phony --tick 1ms \
  | json-to-nsq --topic users

# add users to FoundationDB.
echo "'set {{username}} {{avatar}}'" \
  | phony \
  | xargs -L1 -n3 fdbcli --exec

# add users to MongoDB.
echo "'db.users.insert({ name: \"{{name}}\" })'" \
  | phony \
  | xargs -L1 -n1 mongo --eval

# add users to Redis.
echo "set {{username}} {{avatar}}" \
  | phony \
  | xargs -L1 -n3 redis-cli

# send a single request using curl.
echo 'country={{country}}' \
  | phony --max 1 \
  | curl -d @- httpbin.org/post

Installation

$ go get github.com/yields/phony

Usage

Usage: phony
  [--tick d]
  [--max n]
  [--list]

  phony -h | --help
  phony -v | --version

Options:
  --list          list all available generators
  --max n         generate data up to n [default: -1]
  --tick d        generate data every d [default: 10ms]
  -v, --version   show version information
  -h, --help      show help information

Generators

  avatar
  color
  country
  country.code
  domain
  domain.name
  domain.tld
  double
  email
  event.action
  http.method
  id
  ipv4
  ipv6
  latitude
  longitude
  mac.address
  name
  name.first
  name.last
  product.category
  product.name
  smartdouble:desiredStdDev,desiredMean,min,max
  smartdate:format,deviationDays,rangeDays
  smartunixtime:deviationDays,rangeDays
  state
  state.code
  timezone
  unixtime
  username

Generator attributes

Smart double

All arguments are optional.

• Desired standard deviation
• Desired mean
• Desired minimum value
• Desired maximum value

More info: https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/#Rand.NormFloat64

Smart date

• Date format. Allowed values:
  • ANSIC ("Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 2006")
  • UnixDate ("Mon Jan _2 15:04:05 MST 2006")
  • RubyDate ("Mon Jan 02 15:04:05 -0700 2006")
  • RFC822 ("02 Jan 06 15:04 MST")
  • RFC822Z ("02 Jan 06 15:04 -0700" // RFC822 with numeric zone)
  • RFC850 ("Monday, 02-Jan-06 15:04:05 MST")
  • RFC1123 ("Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST")
  • RFC1123Z ("Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" // RFC1123 with numeric zone)
  • RFC3339 ("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00")
  • RFC3339Nano ("2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00")
  • Kitchen ("3:04PM")
  • Stamp ("Jan _2 15:04:05")
  • StampMilli ("Jan _2 15:04:05.000")
  • StampMicro ("Jan _2 15:04:05.000000")
  • StampNano ("Jan _2 15:04:05.000000000")
  • SqlDateTime ("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
  • SqlDate ("2006-01-02")
  • SqlTime ("15:04:05")
• Deviation in days
• Range in days

Smart unixtime

• Deviation in days
• Range in days

License

(MIT), 2014 Amir Abu Shareb.