fixture-generator provides an easy way to generate fixtures for Go structs. It aims to reduce the time one spends writing tests. It works using a "best effort" approach - if we can't generate data for a field then ignore it and return a partally complete fixture.
I do have more time to spend on this project so if you have suggestions or any kind of feedback I am more than happy to hear it and implement it as soon as possible.
go get github.com/tiriplicamihai/fixture-generator/.../, then $GOPATH/bin/fixturegen
Consider we have the next struct:
package test
type Person struct {
Name string
Age int
Friends []string
}Run: fixturegen -struct Person and the following will be output to stdout:
Person{
Name: "QuZNvyPcKeEp",
Age: 651906,
Friends: []string{"GMV", "dKFjsoGexcbs", "cC"},
}Tip: You can use fixturegen -struct Person | gofmt to get a formatted fixture.
struct- required argument, expects the struct name for which the fixture will be generated
Fixtures can be generated even if field types are from other packages. It performs a recursive discovery for the types it finds in a package.
- Fixtures can not be generated for fields declared as interfaces because we can't know the actual type
- Fixtures can not be generated for a struct that has a self referencing field (we would go in an infinite loop)
- Types from vendored external packages are not supported for now
- https://github.com/vektra/mockery was an insipration for this tool