Type

type keyword prescribes the type of value to generate.

For example:

>>> import ranjg
>>> schema = {
>>>     'type': 'string',
>>> }
>>> generated = ranjg.gen(schema)  # -> returns random string
>>> type(generated)
<class 'str'>

Values available for the type

You can use following values.

value of `type`	type of generated value	detailed usage
`'null'`	`None`	Here
`'boolean'`	`bool`	Here
`'integer'`	`int`	Here
`'number'`	`float`	Here
`'string'`	`str`	Here
`'array'`	`list`	Here
`'object'`	`dict`	Here
a list with the above strings	Along one of the strings in the list.	below
(unset)	Determined on its own (not necessarily random)

note: In the regular JSON schema, "type": "number" also allows for integer values such as 1, but ranjg always generates a float value.

Multiple Type Specification

type can be specified not only as a string, but also as a list of strings. In this case, one of them is adopted to generate the value. For example:

>>> import ranjg
>>> schema = {
>>>     'type': ['string', 'number'],
>>>     'maximum': 1.0,
>>>     'minLength': 2,
>>> }
>>> generated = ranjg.gen(schema)  # -> returns random string or float value

In above case, the type of generated is str or float. If string is adopted, maximum is ignored because it is a parameter for numbers, and minLength is ignored if number is used, because it is a parameter for strings.

warning: It is not allowed to specify an empty list as type.