randbean

Summary

Populates java beans with random dummy data and makes your jUnit tests more lean

Use case

If you need to fill a pojo object with dummy data and you really want to avoid tons of keystrokes like these

bean.setPropertyA(...);
bean.setPropertyB(...);
bean.setPropertyC(...);
bean.setPropertyD(...);
bean.setPropertyE(...);
...
bean.setPropertyZ(...);

What to do

Mark an instance field(s) of your test with @Randomize annotation and that's it. Basic idea is the following

@Randomize private Pojo bean;

@Test public void thisIsAtest(){
  bean.getPropertyA() // null-safe access to generated data
}

Installation

It is not pushed to any public Nexus, so you have to do some work to get it in your app

git clone git@github.com:volodk/randbean.git
cd randbean
mvn install

After installing the jar locally you can include it in your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.randbean</groupId>
  <artifactId>randbean</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.

Copyright 2013-2014 Volodymyr Krasnikov

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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