NAME

Data::Generator::FromDDL - Dummy data generator from DDL statements

SYNOPSIS

use Data::Generator::FromDDL;

my $generator = Data::Generator::FromDDL->new({
    ddl => 'CREATE TABLE users (....);',
    parser => 'mysql',
});
$generator->generate(100); # Generated data are written to STDOUT.

DESCRIPTION

Data::Generator::FromDDL is dummy data generator intended to easily prepare dummy records for RDBMS. This module takes care of some constraints and generates records in the right order.

Supported constraints are

- PRIMARY KEY
- UNIQUE KEY
- FOREIGN KEY

Supported data types are

- BIGINT
- INT (INTEGER)
- MEDIUMINT
- SMALLINT
- TINYINT
- FLOAT
- DOUBLE
- BOOLEAN (BOOL)
- TIMESTAMP
- CHAR
- VARCHAR
- TINYTEXT
- TEXT
- MEDIUMTEXT
- ENUM

METHODS

• new - Create a new instance.

    Data::Generator::FromDDL->new(%options);
  

  Possible options are:

  • ddl => $ddl

    Description of DDL. This option is required.

  • parser => $parser // 'MySQL'

    Parser for ddl. Choices are 'MySQL', 'SQLite', 'Oracle', or 'PostgreSQL'.

  • builder_class => $builder_class // 'Data::Generator::FromDDL::Builder::SerialOrder'

    Builder class.

  • include => [@tables] // []

    Target tables.

  • exclude => [@tables] // []

    Ignored tables.

• generate - Generate dummy records.

    $generator->generate($num, $out_fh, $format, $pretty, $bytes_per_sql);
  

  Arguments are:

  • $num or \%num

    Number of records generated.

    Or you can also give number of records for each table.

      $num = {all => 20, # 20 records for all tables
              tables => {
                  users => 10 # 10 records for 'users' table
                  }
              };
    

    This is useful for table that has one-to-many relationship with other table.

  • $out_fh (default: *STDOUT)

    File handle object to which records are dumped.

  • $format (default: 'sql')

    Output format. Choices are 'sql' or 'json'.

  • $pretty (default: false)

    Boolean value whether to print output prettily.

  • $bytes_per_sql (default: 1048576(1MB))

    The maximum bytes of bulk insert statement.

    This argument is releated to the MySQL's 'max_allowed_packet' variable which stands for the maximum size of string. It's recommended to suit this argument for your MySQL settings.

    cf. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_max_allowed_packet

COMMAND LINE INTERFACE

The datagen_from_ddl(1) command is provided as an interface to this module.

$ datagen_from_ddl --num=100 --parser=mysql --pretty your_ddl.sql

For more details, please see datagen_from_ddl(1).

CONTRIBUTORS

• Kesin11 (Kenta Kase)

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Yuuki Furuyama.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Yuuki Furuyama addsict@gmail.com