slashdotdash / faker-cs

C# port of the Ruby Faker gem (http://faker.rubyforge.org/)

Faker

C# port of the Ruby Faker gem (http://faker.rubyforge.org/) and is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

Available as a NuGet package (https://nuget.org/packages/Faker.Net).

Get the code via git:

git clone git://github.com/slashdotdash/faker-cs.git

Supported version:

.NET framework 3.5 SP1,
.NET framework 4.0,
Silverlight 3.0,
Silverlight 4.0,
Silverlight 5.0,
Windows Phone 7,
Windows Phone 7.1,

Usage

Add a reference to Faker.dll in your project within Visual Studio.

Start using the Faker methods to generate your random test data.

Names, phone numbers and emails

var name = Faker.Name.FullName();  // "Alene Hayes"
Faker.Internet.Email(name);  // "[email protected]"
Faker.Internet.UserName(name);  // "alene.hayes"

Faker.Internet.Email();  // "[email protected]"
Faker.Internet.FreeEmail();  // "[email protected]"

Faker.Internet.DomainName();  // "larkinhirthe.com"

Faker.Phone.Number();  // "[phone] x0344"

Addresses

Faker.Address.StreetAddress();  // "52613 Turcotte Lock"
Faker.Address.SecondaryAddress();  // "Suite 656"
Faker.Address.City();  // "South Wavaside"

Faker.Address.UkCounty();  // "West Glamorgan"
Faker.Address.UkPostCode().ToUpper();  // "BQ7 3AM"

Faker.Address.UsState();  // "Tennessee"
Faker.Address.ZipCode();  // "66363-7828"

Lorem Ipsum sentences and paragraphs

Faker.Lorem.Sentence();  // "Voluptatem repudiandae necessitatibus assumenda dolor illo maiores in."
Faker.Lorem.Paragraph();  /* "Rerum dolor cumque cum animi consequatur praesentium. Enim quia quia modi est ut. Dolores qui debitis qui perspiciatis autem quas. Expedita distinctio earum aut. Delectus assumenda rerum quibusdam harum iusto." */

Buzzword bingo

Last, but not least, you can generate company names, catchphrases and bs!

Faker.Company.Name();  // "Dickens Group"
Faker.Company.CatchPhrase();  // "User-centric neutral internet solution"
Faker.Company.BS();  // "transition proactive solution"

faker-cs's Issues

Bug in german countries

when using Faker.Address.Country() on an german enviroment, , nearly all countries will be returned:

Äquatorialguinea Äthiopien Österreich Afghanistan Albanien Algerien Amerikanisch-Samoa Amerikanische Jungferninseln Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarktis Antigua und Barbuda Argentinien Armenien Aruba Aserbaidschan Australien Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesch Barbados Belarus Belgien Belize Benin die Bermudas Bhutan Bolivien Bosnien und Herzegowina Botsuana Bouvetinsel Brasilien Britische Jungferninseln Britisches Territorium im Indischen Ozean [...]

The reason is, that in File https://github.com/slashdotdash/faker-cs/blob/master/src/Faker/Resources/Address.de-DE.resx#L130 the seperator between the Countries are missing.

I can provide an pull-request with an corrected ressources, if desired.

Kind regards from germany,
Philip

Dotnet framework 2?

When I build or restore a project I get something like:

: warning NU1701: Package 'Faker.Net 1.0.3' was restored using '.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1' instead of the project target framework '.NETCoreApp,Version=v2.0'. This package may not be fully compatible with your project.

Any possibility to update this package to 2.0?

Thank you.

Kevin

Update nuget package to reference this repo

The Faker.Net nuget package currently references the repo located at https://github.com/oriches/faker-cs which is 15 commits behind this repo. If this is the main repo can you update nuget to pull from this repo?

No Lorem class in Faker.Net 1.0.3 NuGet

Lorem class does not exist in Faker.Net 1.0.3 NuGet, .Net 4.0. Checked with ILSpy

Extending Package

Currently, is there any way to add additional Faker data/methods? For example, can I do something like:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Faker.Extensions;

namespace Faker
{
    public static class PartNumber
    {
        public static string Full()
        {
            return ArrayExtensions.Random(Faker.Resources.PartNumber).Trim();
        }
    }
}

To add functionality to the existing implementation (installed via NuGet)

The letters I,J and Z are not used in the second position

I used the Faker.Address.ukPostcode() method and the postcode "HZ2 1MC" was returned.
According to this document: [](https://www.mrs.org.uk/pdf/postcodeformat.pdf), The letters I, J and Z are not used in the second position

Nuget package?

I'm interested in using Faker and was wondering you would interested if I created a nuget package?

Support .NET Standard

There is a current PR in a forked version of this -> oriches#2

It is a simple change to continue to support all current and future versions of .NET.

@slashdotdash @michaldudak