# (WIP) Fixgen - Language agnostic fixture generator

Usually wiring up fake test data is a bunch of work, especially when that data is relational. Fixgen helps to alleviate some of that pain by allowing you to very easily generate fixtures that can also reference other fixtures. It also has some nice characteristics:

- Single binary without dependencies
- Language agnostic
- Dead simple and fast grammar to generate fixtures in minutes
- Supports relations
- Written in OCaml

## Install

Copy [release binary](https://codeberg.org/marcc/fixgen/releases) to `/usr/local/bin`

## Usage

Fixgen makes it simple to generate fixtures. It comes with a tiny DSL:

```sh
$ fixgen 'user (2): id uuidv4, name name; purchase (10): id uuidv4, buyer user.id, amount int(1,40), currency: ("USD","MXN")' -o fixtures
```

This will generate two files:

- fixtures/user.csv, will have two rows containing id and name
- fixtures/purchase.csv, will have ten rows containing id, buyer (which will reference ids from user!), amount, currency.

You can then import it into your SQL server with simple copy from commands

```
COPY users FROM '/fixtures/user.csv' CSV HEADER;
COPY purchases FROM '/fixtures/purchase.csv' CSV HEADER;
```

Or maybe export as JSON instead to import into your NoSQL DB.

```sh
$ fixgen 'user (2): id uuidv4, name name; purchase (3): id uuidv4, buyer user.id, amount int(1,40), currency: ("USD","MXN")' -f json
```

This will print two JSON arrays to stdout.

### Supported types

Fixgen comes with the following built-in types:

- name
- uuidv4
- int(min,max)
- constant, defined in quotes - `fixgen 'user (1): id uuiv4, name "Bob"'`
- ("multiple","choices")

## Development - Prerequisites

- [Nix](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-binary)
- [Direnv](https://direnv.net/docs/installation.html)

After installation, you will need to run direnv allow

```
direnv allow
```

And it will set up the development environment for you with the correct git hooks.

### VSCode

You'll need OCaml platform and direnv extension. Once you have those, you will need to start the project from the terminal. First, ensure you have setup code terminal command:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac

Once in place, cd to the project and run

```
code .
```

And VSCode should launch correctly with LSP installed.

### Running development

```
./scripts/run-watch.sh
```

Run tests

```
./scripts/run-test-watch.sh
```

You can also run them manually:

```
dune runtests
```

### Building

```
dune build
```

### Contributing

[Mailing list](https://lists.sr.ht/~marcc/public-inbox).

Send your patches via [mail](mailto:~marcc/fixgen@lists.sr.ht). New to mailing patches? Check out this [tutorial](https://git-send-email.io/).