JSON Data Generator

This is a simple utility that generates random JSON data according to user defined schemas.

It uses dreamjs.

A REST and WebSocket client are provided to help get started. It could prove useful for mocking data feeds to automate testing or pump data into dashboard applications.

Install

git clone https://github.com/tomeustace/json-data-generator.git

npm install

Entities

There are three sample entities provided by default person, order and stats. Users can create their own entities by placing their entity json files in ./src/json/entities directory.

The ./src/json/entities.json file contains all known entities and needs to be updated with any new entities.

The ./src/json/entity-template.json file contains the entity template. This allows for common properties to be added to generated json for each entity. The actual entity data gets plugged in via the 'data' property of the entity-template. Some users may want to remove this completely, but it is handy for tracking events via time if that is required.

The ./src/custom.types.js file is where any addtional custom types for generated data can be defined. e.g. in order.json there is a Order-Id with value 'id'. The custom.types.js file contains the 'id' property definition as generated by chancejs library.

REST Client

Usage

1. Run "node ./client/rest/rest.serve.js"
2. Open http://localhost:9009/generate/?entity=person,stats&amount=100

WebSocket Client

Usage

1. Run "node ./client/websocket/websocket.serve.js"
2. Open file:///client/websocket/websocket.client.html

Future

Hopefully add a sample dashboard application that consumes the data.