typeorm-mimic

typeorm-mimic is a simple (but powerful) Node.js library to generate test data using only the TypeORM schema.

Features

• Generate random values depending on primitive data types (String, Number, Boolean, Date...)
• Generate custom values for specific fields
• Generate custom values that match non-primitive data types (email, phone, address...)
• Ignore fields
• Generate dates as object or string

Installation

npm install @genially/typeorm-mimic

Usage

mimic(model, opts)

Generates a mimetic document from schemaDefinition

• schemaDefinition: TypeORM schema definition
• opts: Generation options, where the options are in the following format:

        {
          ignore: Array,
          datesAsString: Boolean,
          custom: {
             field: {
               value: Any,
               type: String
             }
          }
        }

Option	Type	Usage
ignore	Array	It can contains string paths or RegExp of fields to ignore during generation
datesAsString	Boolean	Return dates as Date or String
custom	Object	Special generator for specific fields
custom.field.value	Any	Predefined value to the given field
custom.field.type	String	Data type to generate to the given field, in the format: "type.subtype". Examples: "internet.email" or "address.city". See Faker.js methods to know all supported data types

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Usage Example

const { EntitySchema } = require('typeorm');
const mimic = require('@genially/typeorm-mimic');

const schemaDefinition = new EntitySchema({
  name: 'Test',
  columns: {
    name: {
      type: String,
      default: 'Mimic'
    },
    address: {
      type: String,
      nullable: true
    },
    email: {
      type: String
    },
    phones: {
      type: [String]
    },
    birth_date: {
      type: Date
    },
    role: {
      enum: [0, 1, 2]
    },
    is_student: {
      type: Boolean
    },
    created_at: {
      type: Date,
      default: Date.now
    }
  }
});

const randomObject = mimic(schemaDefinition, {
  ignore: ['address'],
  datesAsString: false,
  custom: {
    email: {
      type: 'internet.email'
    },
    phones: {
      type: 'phone.phoneNumber'
    },
    birth_date: {
      value: () => new Date('December 25, 1995 23:15:30')
    }
  }
});

console.log(randomObject);

/*
{
    name: "Mimic",
    email: '[email protected]',
    birth_date: "1995-12-25T22:15:30.000Z",
    phones: [
      '(857) 375-1663',
      '(601) 926-2014',
      '(705) 324-8873 x9541',
      '(693) 690-3304 x99775',
      '1-088-666-8801 x6452',
      '1-125-206-1792',
      '607.384.4536',
      '228.058.0088 x91535'
    ],
    role: 0,
    birth_date: 1995-12-25T22:15:30.000Z,
    is_student: false,
    created_at: 1568388626896
}
*/

Testing

To run the test cases use npm test

Related packages

typeorm-mimic is strongly inspired by mongoose-mimic, which provides similar features to Mongoose ODM.

License

Licensed under MIT