TODO.md

Todo

Implement error handling in the generator

Add more date logic

• Currently all dates are on the first of the month.

Done

Add a CLI interface

• Allow specifying the location of the config file (default to ./config.toml).
• Allow specifying the location of the resulting JSON file (default to ./fake_data.json).
• Debug mode which prints the parsed config and resulting data?
• Output a success message informing the user how many rows and columns where generated.
• Implement error handling.

Allow using a config file to define the structure of the fake data

• https://toml.io/en/
• Allow defining data pools to be used in columns
• Allow defining a list of columns
  • Name
  • Data type
  • Data length
• Reference
  • https://docs.rs/toml/latest/toml/
  • https://serde.rs/enum-representations.html
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69767906/serde-deserialize-a-field-based-on-the-value-of-another-field

Separate the data generation logic into lib files

• Call the lib from the main.rs file

Use a full ISO 8601 date time in UTC

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toJSON

Convert to JSON

• Add serde_json
• Add a top level key
• Write result to a file

Don't include the current row id in references.

Don't recreate pools for each row

• The idea is that they re-use the same pools.

Basic types of data

• Sequencial number
• Date
• Random text
• Comma separated text
• Hierarcical data (A, A1, A2, B, B1, B2)
• Reference to other row

Skipped

Split out each column type to their own methods

• The aim is to allow composing different sets of columns instead of the fixed example we have now in generate_row.
• This isn't really necessary, could revisit in the future.