Faker is a Go library that generates fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, Faker is for you.

Faker is heavily inspired by PHP"s Faker

Faker requires Go >= 1.11

Start at https://play.golang.org/p/AQlqXf-Wi5o

Add this to your Go file

import "github.com/jaswdr/faker"

And run go get or dep ensure to get the package.

Use faker.New() to create and initialize a faker generator, which can generate data by accessing properties named after the type of data you want.

import "github.com/jaswdr/faker"

func main() {
    faker := faker.New()

    faker.Person().Name()
    // Lucy Cechtelar

    faker.Address().Address()
    // 426 Jordy Lodge

    faker.Lorem().Text()
    // Dolores sit sint laboriosam dolorem culpa et autem. Beatae nam sunt fugit
    // et sit et mollitia sed.
    // Fuga deserunt tempora facere magni omnis. Omnis quia temporibus laudantium
    // sit minima sint.
}

Even if this example shows a method access, each call to faker.Name() yields a different (random) result.

p := faker.Person()

for i:=0; i < 10; i++ {
  fmt.Println(p.Name())
}
  // Adaline Reichel
  // Dr. Santa Prosacco DVM
  // Noemy Vandervort V
  // Lexi O"Conner
  // Gracie Weber
  // Roscoe Johns
  // Emmett Lebsack
  // Keegan Thiel
  // Wellington Koelpin II
  // Ms. Karley Kiehn V

See more formatters in docs

Create a fork and get the code.

$ go get github.com/jaswdr/faker

Do your changes, add tests, run the tests.

$ go test
PASS
ok      github.com/jaswdr/faker 0.010s

Push to your fork and send a new pull request from your fork to this repository.

Faker is released under the MIT Licence. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.