Add html

[brianvoe]

Add ability to add random html elements.

[petergeorgas]

Yo! I'm back after a week+ off. What's the deal with this? Would this be like generating individual <p>, <h1>, <div>, <li>, etc. elements with fake info inside of them? Nesting? They wouldn't be styled at all, would they? Is this similar to xml.go?

[brianvoe]

Hey buddy! Ready for round 2?

So my thought for this is to start with a simple function. Something like HtmlElement() string. and returns a random html element. Just like you described in your previous comment <p>, <h1>, <div>

And then next function would take that a step further and do a random complete element <div>random sentence</div> <h1>random sentence</h1>

And then take that another step further and do a group of element that could be randomly nested

<div>
    <p>random sentence</p>
    <h1>
        <li>random something</li>
    </h1>
</div>

[brianvoe]

Those were just my thoughts. Not sure if anyone would actually use it but I thought it would be interesting to add. Eventually my thoughts were to see how far I could take the idea of generating html to resemble at least something that looks like a website.

[petergeorgas]

So if I'm correctly understanding, we have one function that basically just generates an HTML stub (nothing in-between), another function that generates single HTML elements with some fake text inside of them, and then another function that generates nested HTML elements with fake data inside of them?

[brianvoe]

ya that was my thoughts. each proceeding can use the previous function to get data it needs.

[petergeorgas]

Cool! I started work on a new branch, see html.go. So far I have stubs and single elements with fields being generated, next I'll do nesting.

Should we be able to pass in multiple fields for single elements, or just one?

[petergeorgas]

Also, something I think may be cool is if there are also functions for populating specific elements with fake data, for example, perhaps we have a P() func that will always output a <p> element, populated with whatever fields specified.

What do you think?

[brianvoe]

ya thats a pretty good idea. maybe one function that takes in the element. cause otherwise we would have soooo many function to get all the primary html elements that exist

[petergeorgas]

Sorry! It's been a bit. Finals week and all that good stuff. I am having some trouble right now comprehending exactly how nested HTML would work. I am looking at json.go, and it is not really clear to me based on the tests written nor the code how exactly you handle nested objects.

For example, I don't understand how this:

func ExampleFaker_JSON_object() {
	f := New(11)

	value, err := f.JSON(&JSONOptions{
		Type: "object",
		Fields: []Field{
			{Name: "first_name", Function: "firstname"},
			{Name: "last_name", Function: "lastname"},
			{Name: "address", Function: "address"},
			{Name: "password", Function: "password", Params: MapParams{"special": {"false"}}},
		},
		Indent: true,
	})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(string(value))

	// Output: {
	//     "first_name": "Markus",
	//     "last_name": "Moen",
	//     "address": {
	//         "address": "4599 Dale ton, Norfolk, New Jersey 36906",
	//         "street": "4599 Dale ton",
	//         "city": "Norfolk",
	//         "state": "New Jersey",
	//         "zip": "36906",
	//         "country": "Tokelau",
	//         "latitude": 23.058758,
	//         "longitude": 89.022594
	//     },
	//     "password": "qjXy56JHcVlZ"
	// }
}

Produces the output there.

[brianvoe]

Hey! No problem! So instead of looking at the json functions, the more similar one to look at in this situation would be the sentence and paragraph functions. If that makes sense.

[petergeorgas]

Gotcha, in that case, do we not care about what is inside each HTML element? Will we just generate stubs? Do we want nested HTML as a feature?

[brianvoe]

#194 (comment)

So I think this one best explains the 3 functions I was thinking about. Let me know if I need to better describe it.

[petergeorgas]

Are the random things within the HTML elements user-specified or arbitrary? I.e. sentences?

[brianvoe]

arbitrary