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Change randomness behaviour to be like it prior to go1.20
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Pre go1.20, rand.Seed needed to be called for randomness. Meaning, that
math/rand delivered deterministic values by default. This was changed
however. To restore the old behaviour, we need to manually seed our
random generator with a constant.

Additionally, this introduce a local instance of rand.Rand, in order
to prevent unexpected behaviour with other code that relies on the
global math/rand package.

Fixes #10 (The readme and docs explain this, therefore I consider this
solved, as it is by design and not a bug)

Fixes #15
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Bios-Marcel committed Aug 26, 2023
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12 changes: 7 additions & 5 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -94,13 +94,15 @@ var (
separator = flag.String("separator", "-", "The separator between words in the pet name")
)

func init() {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
}

func main() {
flag.Parse()
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

// To have a predictable series of petnames. (This is the default)
petname.Seed(1)

// To have an unpredictable series of petnames.
petname.NonDeterministicMode()

fmt.Println(petname.Generate(*words, *separator))
}
```
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12 changes: 4 additions & 8 deletions cmd/petname/main.go
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Expand Up @@ -22,22 +22,18 @@ package main
import (
"flag"
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"
"github.com/dustinkirkland/golang-petname"

petname "github.com/dustinkirkland/golang-petname"
)

var (
words = flag.Int("words", 2, "The number of words in the pet name")
words = flag.Int("words", 2, "The number of words in the pet name")
separator = flag.String("separator", "-", "The separator between words in the pet name")
)

func init() {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
}

func main() {
flag.Parse()
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
petname.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
fmt.Println(petname.Generate(*words, *separator))
}
22 changes: 17 additions & 5 deletions petname.go
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// End word lists

// Call this function once before using any other to get real random results
var localRand *rand.Rand = rand.New(rand.NewSource(1))

// NonDeterministicMode configures the local random generator used internally
// to provide non deterministic results, instead of a pre-defined order that is
// reproducible even after a process restart. If you wish to specify a custom
// contant, call [Seed(int64)].
func NonDeterministicMode() {
rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
localRand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
}

// Seed configures the local random generator, allowing you to specify a
// constant for reproducible "randomness" or provide a custom value for
// "true" randomness.
func Seed(seed int64) {
localRand.Seed(seed)
}

// Adverb returns a random adverb from a list of petname adverbs.
func Adverb() string {
return adverbs[rand.Intn(len(adverbs))]
return adverbs[localRand.Intn(len(adverbs))]
}

// Adjective returns a random adjective from a list of petname adjectives.
func Adjective() string {
return adjectives[rand.Intn(len(adjectives))]
return adjectives[localRand.Intn(len(adjectives))]
}

// Name returns a random name from a list of petname names.
func Name() string {
return names[rand.Intn(len(names))]
return names[localRand.Intn(len(names))]
}

// Generate generates and returns a random pet name.
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