Different problems encountered when generating product categories

[barryhughes]

Prerequisites

• I have carried out troubleshooting steps and I believe I have found a bug.
• I have searched for similar bugs in both open and closed issues and cannot find a duplicate.

Describe the bug

I needed to generate a large (though not that large) volume of product categories to test a problem. I used:

wp wc generate terms product_cat 100

On the first attempt, execution stopped a little after the halfway point:

Generating terms  65 % [==========================>                   ] 0:06 / 0:09
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: minNbChars must be smaller than 
maxNbChars in /.../wp-content/plugins/wc-smooth-generator/vendor/fakerphp/faker/src/
Faker/Provider/Text.php:73

On the second attempt, I got a little further then a different error occurred:

Generating terms  95 % [============================================>  ] 0:10 / 0:11

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught OverflowException: Maximum retries of 100 reached without 
finding a valid real text in /.../wp-content/plugins/wc-smooth-generator/vendor/
fakerphp/faker/src/Faker/Provider/Text.php:83

Not the same problem, I know. So perhaps these should ideally be separate bug reports, but the common thread was encountering issues when generating 100+ product cats so, provisionally, I've logged this single report. Possibly, these same issues can show up when generating other types of data, too.

WordPress Environment

• WC 6.7.0-dev
• Smooth Generator 1.2.1

Isolating the problem

• I have deactivated other plugins and confirmed this bug occurs when only WooCommerce and WooCommerce Smooth Generator plugins are active.
• This bug happens with a default WordPress theme active, or Storefront.
• I can reproduce this bug consistently using the steps above.

[coreymckrill]

I just ran into this too. The version of the Faker library was just updated, so these seem related to that.