sebs4tw / fake-event-generator

fake-event-generator

This homebrew project was a proof of concept that merely devolved into a prop for homework assignments.

Usage

event-gen

The event-gen script supports three modes of output:

• event-gen stdout will print out to the standard output.
• event-gen tcp will connect to a tcp server and send events as json documents separated by newlines.
• event-gen http will connect to a http server and send events as individual documents in HTTP POST requests.

Both commands support the following arguments

-H, --host string   remote host address (default "localhost")
-p, --port uint16   remote port (default 3333)

Global flags include:

-seed int	initialize random number generation with this seed

tcp-server and http-server

Both utilities are provided only as code example for receiving output from event-gen and printing it to the stdout.

Developer guide

Requirements

The provided instructions require the installation of these software installations on your local environment

• go 1.17+
• docker for desktop

Testing and running from sources with golang

go test ./...
go run main.go help

Building distribution binaries with docker

A Dockerfile is provided to simplify the compilation of cross-platform binaries for distribution. The following commands will create the binaries in the local ./dist folder when executed at the root of this repository.

Linux or OS X

mkdir -p ./dist
docker build -t builder .
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd)\dist:/export builder

Windows

mkdir ./dist
docker build -t builder .
docker run -it --rm -v %CD%\dist:/export builder