Using the following schema:
and a very simple package.json
with the only dependency being json-schema-faker
(0.5.0.rc16), when I run the following code I see the output shown at the bottom (an example run)
jsf = require('json-schema-faker');
var schema = {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"users": {
"type": "array",
"minItems": 3,
"maxItems": 5,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"unique": true,
"minimum": 1
},
"firstName": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "name.findName"
},
"lastName": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "name.lastName"
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "internet.email"
}
},
"required": ["id", "firstName", "lastName", "email"]
}
}
},
"required": ["users"]
};
var mylist = jsf.generate(schema);
console.log("mylist: ", mylist);
OUTPUT
mylist: { users:
[ { id: 46919647,
firstName: 'commodo ut deserunt',
lastName: 'magna',
email: 'ex minim irure' },
{ id: 36864773,
firstName: 'aliquip elit laborum',
lastName: 'co',
email: 'nisi Ut laboris dolore' },
{ id: 62231151,
firstName: 'adipisicing id reprehenderit exercitation',
lastName: 'tempor culpa deserunt Excepteur nisi',
email: 'est enim' },
{ id: 57427341,
firstName: 'eu ullamco reprehenderit mollit',
lastName: 'cupidatat ut non',
email: 'id dolore sed et' } ] }
Why is everything in Latin? What am I doing wrong here.
The exact same thing was happening to me. I was following along with Cory House's "Building a java script development environment" course on pluralSight. To stay current with all the dependencies I updated to the latest json-schema-faker version 0.5.0-rc16.
This broke the json generation and I was getting latin for everything. When I reverted back to version 0.3.6, then I was generating first name, last name and email correctly.
Here is the schema I used :
export const schema = {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"users": {
"type": "array",
"minItems": 3,
"maxItems": 5,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "number",
"unique": true,
"minimum": 1
},
"firstName": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "name.firstName"
},
"lastName": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "name.lastName"
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"faker": "internet.email"
}
},
"required": ["id", "firstName", "lastName", "email"]
}
}
},
"required": ["users"]
};
and here is the corresponding java script :
import jsf from 'json-schema-faker';
import {schema} from './mockDataSchema';
import fs from 'fs';
import chalk from 'chalk';
const json = JSON.stringify(jsf(schema));
fs.writeFile("./src/api/db.json", json, function (err) {
if (err) {
return console.log(chalk.red(err));
} else {
console.log(chalk.green("Mock data generated."));
}
});
OUTPUT
{
"users": [{
"id": 49569377,
"firstName": "Gerald",
"lastName": "Turcotte",
"email": "Eda_Lemke66@hotmail.com"
},
{
"id": 84739169,
"firstName": "Jerad",
"lastName": "Gerhold",
"email": "Reynold.Ryan@yahoo.com"
},
{
"id": 78507259,
"firstName": "Hayden",
"lastName": "Schultz",
"email": "Kassandra64@yahoo.com"
}
]
}
But having said all that and getting to work now, and after a bit of googling I found this
0.5.0-RC2 possible bug with faker 'date.past' #275
So I made these changes to package.json:
"json-schema-faker": "^0.5.0-rc16",
"faker": "^4.1.0",
and wiped out my node_modules folder and package-lock.json file and did a clean npm install.
I changed the code above to this and re-ran the script with successful results.
jsf.extend('faker', () => require('faker'));
const json = JSON.stringify(jsf.generate(schema));
The bug report states that
Hi, since 0.5.x all external generators (chance, faker, etc.) are not built-in, so you need to register as the docs
Hope this works for you.