optional-faker

Small wrapper around faker, to make values optional!

Note that faker added own optional proxy, which however can be used only with callables. This is why in version 2.0.0 we renamed our method to none_or.

Example

>>> from faker import Faker
>>> import optional_faker
>>>
>>> fake = Faker()
>>> Faker.seed(1555)
>>>
>>> # `fake.none_or` can take any value, and return it, or None.
>>> fake.none_or(fake.pystr())
'scHhghRDleajCHjEYWAu'
>>> fake.none_or(fake.pystr())
None
>>> # or it can take callable, and *args with **kwargs
>>> # that will be passed to this callable.
>>> fake.none_or(fake.pystr, 1, max_chars=10)
'zmZUcJVTYX'
>>> fake.none_or(fake.pystr, 1, max_chars=10)
None
>>> # there is no explicit check is callable a faker part,
>>> # so you can pass anything.
>>> fake.none_or(lambda: "my callable!")
'my callable!'
>>> fake.none_or(lambda: "my callable!")
None

Installing

pip install optional-faker

And then you need to import optional_faker anywhere but before creating Faker instance.

Installing for local developing

git clone https://github.com/PerchunPak/optional-faker.git
cd optional-faker

Installing poetry

Next we need install poetry with recommended way.

If you use Linux, use command:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python -

If you use Windows, open PowerShell with admin privileges and use:

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | python -

Installing dependencies

poetry install

If something is not clear

You can always write me!

Updating

pip install -U optional-faker

For local development

For updating, just re-download repository, if you used git for downloading, just run git pull.

Thanks

This project was inspired by faker-optional.

This project was generated with python-template.