Faker C++

Generate fake (but realistic) data for testing and development.

🎯 Goal

Goal of the Faker C++ is to provide a library like Faker.js for C++ community.

Usage

#include <iostream>

#include "faker-cxx/Date.h"
#include "faker-cxx/Internet.h"
#include "faker-cxx/Location.h"
#include "faker-cxx/String.h"

int main()
{
    const auto id = faker::String::uuid();
    const auto email = faker::Internet::email();
    const auto password = faker::Internet::password();
    const auto verificationCode = faker::String::numeric(8);
    const auto createdAt = faker::Date::pastDate();
    const auto city = faker::Location::city();
    const auto streetAddress = faker::Location::streetAddress();

    std::cout << id << std::endl;               // 58018063-ce5a-4fa7-adfd-327eb2e2d9a5
    std::cout << email << std::endl;            // [email protected]
    std::cout << password << std::endl;         // @cWLwgM#Knalxeb
    std::cout << verificationCode << std::endl; // 31457428
    std::cout << createdAt << std::endl;        // 2023-06-20T02:06:36Z
    std::cout << city << std::endl;             // Sayreville
    std::cout << streetAddress << std::endl;    // 1716 Harriet Alley

    return 0;
}

💎 Modules

• 🛩 Airline - aircraft types, airlines, airports, flight numbers
• 🐼 Animal - animal types and species
• 📖 Book - book title, genre, author, publisher, ISBN
• 🎨 Color - color names, rgb, hex, hcl
• 🛒 Commerce - commerce department, product name, sku, price
• 🏢 Company - company name, type, industry, catch phrase, buzz phrase
• 🖥️ Computer - type, manufacturer, model, CPU info, GPU info
• 💾 Database - column names, column types, database engines
• ℹ️ Datatype - booleans
• 📅 Date - past, future dates
• 🏦 Finance - currency, IBAN, BIC, account name, account number, pin, credit card numbers
• 🍝 Food - food category, vegetables, fruits, meats, dishes
• 📁 Git - branch names, commit messages, commit hash
• 👨‍💻 Hacker - hacker words
• ✋ Helper - random element from container
• 🌐 Internet - emails, usernames, passwords, IP, HTTP
• 🖼️ Image - images urls, github avatar urls, image dimensions
• 🌍 Location - countries, cities, zip codes, street addresses
• 📚 Lorem - lorem words, sentences, paragraphs
• 🏥 Medicine - conditions, medical tests, specialties
• 🎥 Movie - actors, actresses, genres, movie titles
• 🎶 Music - artists, song names, genres
• 🔢 Number - random integers, floating point numbers
• 🧑 Person - first, last names, job titles, hobby, genders, sex, nationalitiy, language
• 📞 Phone - phone number, IMEI
• ⚽ Sport - sport names, athletes, events
• 🔢 String - uuids, alphanumeric, numeric, hexadecimal
• 💻 System - file paths, file extensions, file names, directories, semantic version
• 🎮 Video game - title, genre, platform, studio
• 🌤️ Weather - temperature, pressure, humidity, weather description
• 💬 Word - sample words, nouns, verbs

📖 Documentation

https://cieslarmichal.github.io/faker-cxx/

Consuming library with CMake (CMake 3.22 or newer)

1. Add faker to git submodules (execute in project root):

   mkdir externals && cd externals
   git submodule add https://github.com/cieslarmichal/faker-cxx.git
   git submodule update --init --recursive
   

2. Link with library:

   set(BUILD_FAKER_TESTS OFF)
   
   add_subdirectory(externals/faker-cxx)
   
   add_executable(main Main.cpp)
   
   target_link_libraries(main faker-cxx)

Compiler support

• MSVC➚ version 143 or newer.
• GCC➚ version 13 or newer.
• Clang➚ version 16 or newer.
• Apple Clang➚ version 16 or newer.

Dependencies

• GTest (BUILD_FAKER_TESTS=OFF CMake flag to disable)
• fmt (only for Apple Clang++ compiler)

✨ Contributing

Feel free to join Faker C++ development! 🚀

Please check CONTRIBUTING guide.

Discord Channel for contributors.

📝 Compilation guides

• Clang++
• Apple Clang++
• G++
• MSVC