Archigen

Archigen is a tiny class library for integrating other procedural generation libraries and programs together. It provides a few basic things:

• An IGenerator<T> interface for content-generating classes to implement
• A Generator<T> class for chaining instances of IGenerator<T> together

In addition, a ConditionalGenerator<T> class is also provided when constraining generated output is necessary.

Example

Let's say you want to generate random teams of players as described by these two classes:

public class Team
{
    public string TeamName { get; set; }
    public List<Player> Players { get; set; }
}

public class Player
{
    public string PlayerName { get; set; }
}

Archigen will let you construct a generator for the Team class like so:

var g = new Generator<Team>()
        .ForProperty<string>(x => x.TeamName, new NameGenerator())
        .ForListProperty<Player>(x => x.Players, new Generator<Player>()
            .ForProperty<string>(x => x.PlayerName, new NameGenerator()))
        .UsingSize(10);

And generate a new team of players every time Next() is called:

var team = g.Next(); 

The NameGenerator class used to populate TeamName and PlayerName can be anything as long as it implements the IGenerator<string> interface and has a Next() method that returns a string. If you're looking for an actual name generator to use, see Syllabore which uses Archigen.

Installation

Archigen is available as a NuGet package. You can install it from your NuGet package manager in Visual Studio or by running the following command in your NuGet package manager console:

Install-Package Archigen

License

MIT License

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