Random JSON data generator

http://www.json-generator.com

by davidbarker • 12 years ago

141 29 12 years ago

json-generator.com

bendecoste• 12 years ago

Does this have an API? I could see it being a great tool if it did.

primitivesuave• 12 years ago

Amazing. I didn't even realize I was wasting time generating my own sample JSON data until I played with this.

danielweber• 12 years ago

I was expecting a fuzzer what would let me generate things to try to corrupt my JSON interpreter, but this is much more useful.

grageth• 12 years ago

Alright that is freaking nice! Great work! +1 for API. Be nice to be able to send my template (left side of window) and get back the JSON on the right.

twerquie• 12 years ago

It would be great if this was published as an npm module.

joshstrange• 12 years ago

I was thinking along the same lines, I've used Faker [0] for PHP before and I would love to be able to have an npm module to generate test JSON like this!

[0] https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

timrwood• 12 years ago

There is an npm module available.

https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/

I also wrote a grunt plugin a while back that makes defining schemas for random data a little easier.

https://github.com/timrwood/grunt-ipsum

akilism• 12 years ago

I started working on something like this a few months ago.

https://github.com/akilism/crashtest

it's still a little bit buggy though and not really user friendly. but it gets the job done for me.

stolksdorf• 12 years ago

http://stolksdorf.github.io/JsonGen/ Enjoy.

Eerily similar syntax to submitted one. I could roll this into a npm module rather quickly.

Dorian-Marie• 12 years ago

For fixture generation / mocking API that would be great

ottertown• 12 years ago

tried using this before (or one similar to it).

the reason I still have to use python is for generating different clusters of objects with distinct attributes (e.g. to create a non-normal distribution within objects and attributes). this system lets you create random clusters of objects without being able to control the distribution because you can't predefine variables.

unless of course, I'm missing some key feature?

thrush• 12 years ago

+1 for awesome/simple. Would be great if this came with validators for the different types.

kolodny2• 12 years ago

Cache: http://i.imgur.com/uJUofyS.png

For those wondering

    {{eval(String.fromCharCode(40,102,117,110,99,116,105,111,110,40,41,32,123,100,101,98,117,103,103,101,114,59,125,41,40,41))}}

From:

    'String.fromCharCode(' + ('(function() {debugger;})()'.split('').map(function(c) { return c.charCodeAt(0) }).join()) + ')'

sanderjd2• 12 years ago

The site is over quota and I have no clue what your comment means.

kolodny2• 12 years ago

It was working a second ago. It's just a way to execute javascript code.

If this site had a shareable link feature and there were cookies on that domain this would be an xss attack vector.

mh-• 12 years ago

and it's over quota.

_RPM• 12 years ago

Should have set up nginx using the cache module to overcome this over-quota thing.

n8m• 12 years ago

So it's popular :)

acbart• 12 years ago

I need this as a library for Python, Java, and Racket; it'd be perfect for testing web services that return Java. I should probably fork the Javascript...

zo1• 12 years ago

Here is the javascript: http://www.json-generator.com/js/app.753945435.js

Don't think the source is open-source, though.

Patrick_Devine• 12 years ago

This seems like it would make a really great unix command line utility. You could make it look something like:

randjson <input template>

and it would fill in the template for you and spit it to stdout. That way you can include it in things like Makefiles or build scripts for testing various parts of your code.

tr33house• 12 years ago

used it last night... now it's down. It's an awesome resource

brryant• 12 years ago

Would be an amazing command line app.

tzz• 12 years ago

Cached version: http://realcache.com/?q=http://www.json-generator.com/

kazagistar• 12 years ago

I think this could be even more useful if it took a JSON schema or something as a template instead.

dav-• 12 years ago

Wow, this looks awesome. Unfortunately the site was hugged to death, anyone know if it's on Github?

gaurav_godhwani• 12 years ago

"Over Quota

This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later."

Side-effects of using App Engine :(

film42• 12 years ago

OP just needs to scale up. Advantages of App Engine :)

Random JSON data generator

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