Question: Would be viable to use reflection to call mockneat data generators ?

[cvgaviao]

Question: Would be viable to use reflection to call mockneat data generators ?

[nomemory]

Hi,

I think it's possible. Every generator is a MockUnit (that's the interface). And also a specific class that implements this interface or a more specific one (MockUnitString, MockUnitInt, etc.).

For example Names: https://github.com/nomemory/mockneat/blob/master/src/main/java/net/andreinc/mockneat/unit/user/Names.java

I don't see any reason it won't work what you want to achieve. You can keep an instance of Names in xgen.First_Name and then call get() through reflection to get a different name all the time.

Depending on how much you can modify your internal tool, you can also mingle scripts in the JSON you are using for your schemas. I did something similar in:
https://github.com/nomemory/serverneat#json-response-dynamic---using-mockneat

Keep me posted.

PS: another idea is to serialise all the Pojos you generated (see serialize() method from MockUnit) and the read them from the disk.

[nomemory]

@cvgaviao Any luck? Need any help?