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# frozen_string_literal: true

module Faker
  class String < Base
    class << self
      def random(length = 32)
        utf8string select_a length
      end

      private

      def select_a(length)
        if length.class.included_modules.include? Enumerable
          select_a sample(length.to_enum.to_a)
        else
          length # recursive base case
        end
      end

      def utf8string(length)
        ratio = char_space_ratio
        (1..length.to_i).map do
          space_or_utf8_char ratio
        end.join
      end

      def space_or_utf8_char(ratio)
        sample [32.chr(Encoding::UTF_8), [utf8character] * ratio].flatten
      end

      def char_space_ratio
        sample [2, [3] * 5, [5] * 17, [7] * 11, 11, 191].flatten
      end

      def utf8character
        sample([
                 rand(32..90), # latin alphabet
                 rand(128),             # 7-bit ASCII
                 rand(0xd800),          # utf-8 codepoints below utf-16 surrogate halves
                 rand(57_344..1_114_111) # utf-8 codepoints above utf-16 surrogate halves
               ]).chr(Encoding::UTF_8)
      end
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

6 entries across 6 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
faker-1.9.6	lib/faker/default/string.rb
faker-1.9.5	lib/faker/default/string.rb
faker-1.9.4	lib/faker/default/string.rb
faker-1.9.3	lib/faker/default/string.rb
faker-1.9.2	lib/faker/default/string.rb
faker-1.9.1	lib/faker/string.rb