Generate JSON with Random Data

Question

I"m using chance.js to help me generate some random data. It works really well, and I'd like to use this data to output random JSON objects.

Here's the structure I'm after:

{
    "users": [
        {
            "Name": "John Smith",
            "Fname": "John",
            "Lname": "Smith",
            "Email": "john.smith@acmemedia.com", 
        }, 

        ...etc
}

I have chance.js working in a jsFiddle, but I'm not sure how to output JSON data with the chance.js functions.

$(function() {    
    $("div[data]").each(function() {
        var data = $(this).attr("data");
        var chance = new Chance(Math.Random);
        $(this).append(chance[data]());
    });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/5Lcfz838/4/

The chance.js documentation is available here: http://chancejs.com/

lorond · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-20T17:11:54.440

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Here is an array of 10 random objects:

var arr = new Array(10).fill().map(function() {
    return {
        first: chance["first"](),
        last: chance["last"](),
        email: chance["email"](),
        city: chance["city"](),
        state: chance["state"](),
    };
});

var json = JSON.stringify({ users: arr }, null, 2); // as you asked for json
console.log(json);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/chance/0.5.6/chance.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

edited Jul 20 '16 at 17:11

answered Jul 20 '16 at 15:48

lorond

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I've updated answer with json indentation. For more details look at this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4810841/how-can-i-pretty-print-json-using-javascript – lorond Jul 20 '16 at 17:12

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