Java Faker VS initializr

Faker was originally written in Perl and is also available as a library for Ruby, Java, and Python.

you can use faker java

JavaFaker for generating random data https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker

I've been using https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker which seems to be much more popular. How is this one different?

I'm using 1.0.2 from this repository: https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker

I'm Java developer. While we have had our fair share of shenanigans, if the people behind the Java equivalent of faker (https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker) went off the rails it wouldn't be anywhere near as much of an issue.

This has another bottleneck, each time you request something, it ends up with a IO call to open a file, as all fake data is stored in a file: https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker/blob/master/src/main/resources/en/dragon_ball.yml I recently filed a bug to javafaker that in some cases file descriptor was never closed, resulting in even worse performance and memory leaks, killing our service after millions of method calls.

The best way, for generating a ready-to-run application in Java you can use the Spring Boot Initializr tool.

curl --location 'https://start.spring.io/starter.zip?type=maven-project&language=java&bootVersion=3.2.2&baseDir=ms-xcoffee&groupId=com.xcoffee&artifactId=ms-xcoffee&name=ms-xcoffee&description=Demo%20project%20for%20Spring%20Boot&packageName=com.xcoffee.ms-xcoffee&packaging=jar&javaVersion=21&dependencies=webflux%2Clombok%2Cvalidation' | tar -xzvf -

In this segment we will create a basic Spring boot app from Spring Initializer. Add the below dependencies:

Add the following MongoDB dependencies in your pom.xml or use spring initializer and select the Spring Data MongoDB dependency:

I created all of these applications using start.spring.io's REST API and HTTPie.

An easy way to create the skeleton project is to visit Spring Initializr, I set the Project to Gradle - Groovy, Language to Java, and add Spring Web dependency. Then it's just to generate the project and unpack it.

Create a new Spring Boot application using the Spring Initializr. You can use the web version or the curl command below. Use the default for most of the options. For the dependencies, select web, and okta. For the build tool, select Gradle.

I will start with a simple example of a cloud function, which is the same as a rest endpoint in the classical spring boot web application. You can create a project from your favorite IDE or from Spring Initliazr.

I would advise everyone to go the extra mile and update their entire spring boot version to the latest appropriate version. To find out what that is, simply go to https://start.spring.io.