protorand generates a protobuf message struct with random values from any type implementing the proto.Message interface.
proto.Message is implemented by all structs generated by the default complier for Protocol Buffers.
protorand also recursibely embeds values to struct fields in a struct and supports Map, Slice (repeated in Protobuf) and OneOf.
You can generate proto messages filled with random values. You can use it for some testing purposes like random value test or performance test.
$ go get -u github.com/sryoya/protorand
pr := protorand.New()
pb := &testpb.TestMessage{} // some protobuf message struct
res, err := pr.Gen(pb)
if err != nil {
// some error handling
}
fmt.Println(res)
// now it prints the protobuf message struct with random values like this:
// some_str:"EtNkGoBvGg" some_int32:895194746 some_sint32:1378122731 some_uint32:2018831629 some_fixed32:3152315036 some_sfixed32:1347258978 some_int64:6534493099247216387 some_sint64:724134999722101364 some_uint64:9797562765629663753 some_fixed64:9494449334166659795 some_sfixed64:2365978907336111062 some_float32:0.31029108 some_float64:0.07361103 some_slice:"qgWT3LG6Nh" some_msg:{some_int:1226009465} some_msgs:{some_int:276429239} some_map:{key:1431285010 value:{some_int:387368828}} some_enum:SOME_ENUM_VALUE_1 one_of_int32:1768554790Q. Does this package allow me to set fixed values or use specific rules for certain fields?
A. No, at least now. We can operate proto message structs with the normal way like msg.FieldA = "some value" . When we have specific rules for some fields, we can just change the values in them, overwriting the values that protorand generates. protorand aims to provide an easy and common way to help generating the random protobuf message struct.
This package still has some points to update. The unimplemented features are follwing:
Optionalfield
You are more than welcome to contribute to this project. Fork and make a Pull Request, or create an Issue if you see any problem.