Fake Data

Cathas9lives

Could I use the real data from a database?

clarkwinkelmann

Cathas9lives how would that work ? The whole purpose of this extension is to create random data.

You're probably looking for some import script ?

Ralkage

Me: I don't wanna manually create like 50 users, threads, and posts 🥺

Also me: OH! That's right, @clarkwinkelmann build this amazing extension saving me countless hours of generating fake data 😼

Besides the little issue with not being able to generate a bazillion unique users due to the reuse of usernames and for the fact that Flarum does not like dupes, you are a life and time saver Clark!

clarkwinkelmann

Ralkage yeah I'm very aware of that. I has just not bothered me enough to force me implementing it yet 😂

I'm thinking of two options:

Drop realistic email addresses and just use something time-based as suggested by luceos above, that way you can create as many as you want without any problem
Allow setting a prefix for new emails

With probably an option to keep using the default Faker generator.

clarkwinkelmann

Released version 0.3.0. This version only works on beta 12 and upwards.

Fix issue with discussion meta not always being updated, causing the discussions to be invisible to non-admins
Improve performance when refreshing discussion metadata
Introduce bulk mode

In bulk mode, a single author/title/content will be picked and reused for all new discussions and posts. New users will have the same username and email, with an incremental number at the end. In my tests this reduced the run time by two when creating 10k discussions.

askvortsov

As a side note, users are sometimes created with periods in usernames, which doesn't satisfy username validation. I think this breaks mentionig those users, although I'm not sure whether or not this is important enough to fix.

clarkwinkelmann

askvortsov correct. It's never been an issue for me because I rarely need to mention those fake users, but I can try to fix that in a future release.

The reason dots are included is because I use the "username" output of the Faker library, which returns some values that might not fit Flarum validation.

There are so many possible additions.

clarkwinkelmann

Version 0.3.2 has been released with some fixes:

Usernames are now Flarum compliant (no more dots, and they will now have either dashes or underscores)
Add uniqueness checks for username and emails against existing database records

You will also find a beta14-compatible version on the beta14 branch (not tagged yet)

Ralkage

clarkwinkelmann would love some Reactions on Discuss right about now 🤣

But in the meantime....WOOHOOOO!!! 🥳 I am always finding myself needed to generate fake data for my local Flarum test installs to do extension development and debugging. Also works when I need to get Cypress stuff going on a new machine 👀

clarkwinkelmann

Seems like I forgot to post about beta 14 support here. Version 0.3.3 adds support.

This is the first extension I made compatible on the day of the release.

luceos

This extension, fake data, is active on all beta sites.

Pika

clarkwinkelmann How can I delete all things that Created by fakedata? thank you!

luceos

Pika reinstall. This extension isn't meant to be used on a production forum.

Pika

luceos OK, Thanks my brother.

Dusty

Breaks half of the site, waiting for a fix

Dusty

luceos Is it possible somehow without reinstalling ??

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@Dusty This extension isn't meant to be used on a production forum.

luceos

Dusty the intent of this extension is to generate dummy/fake data. If you didn't want that, you shouldn't have done that. The warning in the OP clearly states it's probably best not to install this on your production forum.

The only way to restore your forum is to create one with a clean slate, or remove all generated data manually, via the database or through the ux.

Dusty

luceos how can i get to php my admin

clarkwinkelmann

I'm not exactly sure what situation you're in.

If you accidentally generated data on a live forum, the best course of action is to restore from backup. Unless you generated very little data it's probably too much to fix by hand and I can't help with that.

If you were trying to use the extension for its intended purpose and encountered an error, please share details, I'll be happy to take a look and fix it. The latest version supports beta 15.