This is a minor release with the following changes:

Features

• issue #216 : Support customization for internal randomizers
• issue #225 : add collectionSizeRange parameter
• issue #227 : add stringLengthRange parameter

Fixed bugs

• issue #229 : Unable to configure maxObjectPoolSize parameter in EnhancedRandomFactoryBean
• issue #230 : Unable to configure maxRandomizationDepth parameter in EnhancedRandomFactoryBean
• issue #223: StringRandomizer never returns Strings of maxStringLength

Enhancements and APIs changes

• issue #231 : rename maxObjectPoolSize to objectPoolSize
• issue #232 : rename maxRandomizationDepth to randomizationDepth
• issue #221 : improve error message when unable to randomize a bean
• issue #220 : EnhancedRandomImpl.getRandomCollectionSize never returns maxCollectionSize

API deprecations

• The minCollectionSize and maxCollectionSize parameters have been deprecated in favour of collectionSizeRange
• The minStringLength and maxStringLength parameters have been deprecated in favour of stringLengthRange

Many thanks to @enedzvetsky, @dermoritz and @kermit-the-frog for testing and reporting issues. A big thank to @PascalSchumacher for his active contributions to random beans!

This is a minor release with new features and bug fixes. A special thank to @PascalSchumacher and @sansherbina for their contributions to this release!

Here is the complete change log:

New Features

• issue #212: Add field exclusion by modifiers
• issue #210: Add maxRandomizationDepth parameter

Bug fixes

• issue #208: ClassCastException on wildcard generics in collections
• issue #211: MapPopulator doesn't support java.util.EnumMap
• issue #213: Exception when randomizing TreeMap, ConcurrentHashMap, ConcurrentSkipListMap

A special thank to @PascalSchumacher for his amazing contributions to Random Beans! Many thanks to other contributors (@alimohebbi , @MarvinWyrich, @vanhove, @mikemaaaa, @oyxiaogua, @pmaciocia, @rodriguealcazar) for reporting bugs, requesting features and reviewing code. Open source community is really wonderful 😄

v3.3 is a minor release with new features, bug fixes and enhancements. It can be used as a drop-in replacement of v3.2 . Here is the complete change log:

New features

• issue #177 : add method to create EnhancedRandom instances with default parameters
• issue #182 : add maxObjectPoolSize parameter
• issue #192 : add minStringLength parameter
• issue #197 : add minCollectionSize parameter

Enhancements

• issue #201 : allow generation of empty collections

Fixed Bugs

• issue #184 : Enum values are not randomized
• issue #189 : Abstract enums are not initialized
• issue #191 : maxCollectionSize parameter is not used for arrays
• issue #199 : MapRandomizer sometimes fails because "random number of entries = 0"
• issue #204 : fields of direct abstract superclass are not populated

New features

• issue #151: Add method to exclude fields by type EnhancedRandomBuilder#exclude(Class... types)
• issue #156: Add possibility to exclude field annotated with a custom annotation
• issue #160: FieldDefinition should be more flexible
• issue #162: Add support for @Pattern to generate random strings that match a regex
• issue #166: add overrideDefaultInitialization parameter
• issue #172: add ZonedDateTimeRangeRandomizer

API changes and improvements

• issue #171: Deprecated constructors JodaTimeDateTimeRangeRandomizer(Date min, Date max, long seed), JodaTimeLocalDateRangeRandomizer(Date min, Date max, long seed) and JodaTimeLocalDateTimeRangeRandomizer(Date min, Date max, long seed)

Fixed Bugs

• issue #153: Exception when randomizing collection with type variable generics
• issue #169: Default field initialization should not be overridden
• issue #171: Joda time range randomizers must take Joda time types as parameters (not java.util.Date)
• issue #175: Unable to register parameters through Spring factory bean

This new release brings new features, improvements and bug fixes. Many thanks to all contributors for suggesting ideas, testing snapshot versions and filing bugs!

New features

• issue #136: add maxCollectionSize parameter
• issue #140: add maxStringLength parameter
• issue #141: add charset parameter
• issue #142: add dateRange parameter
• issue #144: add timeRange parameter

API changes and improvements

• issue #134:
  • Deprecate method random(Class, int, String...) in EnhancedRandom
  • Add method randomStreamOf(Class, int, String...) in EnhancedRandom
  • Add method randomListOf(Class, int, String...) in EnhancedRandom
  • Add method randomSetOf(Class, int, String...) in EnhancedRandom
  • Add method randomCollectionOf(Class, int, String...) in EnhancedRandom
• issue #130: add @RandomizerArgument annotation

Fixed Bugs

• issue #131: InstantiationException when providing a randomizer without default constructor in @Randomizer
• issue #135: Unable to exclude java.time.Instant from being randomized
• issue #145: StringRandomizer should generate strings with random length

A special thanks to @PascalSchumacher for his amazing contributions to this release! Pascal has added features, fixed bugs and tremendously improved the code quality. This guy is awesome 👍 Many thanks to all others contributors who reported bugs, requested features and tested snapshot versions.

Major Changes

• Random Beans now requires a Java 1.8+ runtime.
• Module random-beans-java8 has been merged into the core module random-beans (#88)

New features

#28: add ability to use Java 8 Supplier as randomizer #41: add support for Java 8 Date and Time API (JSR 310) types #118: Allow more controll over generated values #102: Added more randomizers: LocaleRandomizer, UUIDRandomizer, GregorianCalendarRandomizer, TimeZoneRandomizer, RegularExpressionRandomizer #124: Integrate Lombok to reduce boilerplate code

API changes and improvements

#78: Make the constructor of EnhancedRandomBuilder public #82: Add support to register a Randomizer for a given type #112: Add Spring support to register a custom randomizer for a given type #116: Add static factory method to generate random beans with default configuration parameters #117: rename nextObjects method into objects to conform with the standard java.util.Random API naming pattern #120: Merge StringLengthRandomizer and StringRandomizer #110: Merge NameRandomizer and FullNameRandomzier

Fixed Bugs

#84: "Pre-initialized" Bean Fields are nulled #86: Exception if java-faker does not support default locale #113: Empty first Collection when no seed is provided #121 User defined Collection/Map types are not populated

Major changes

• The project has been renamed from jPopulator to Random Beans
• The Populator interface has been renamed to EnhancedRandom
• The PopulatorBuilder class has been renamed to EnhancedRandomBuilder
• The Populator.populateBean(Class type) method has been renamed to EnhancedRandom.nextObject(Class type)
• Java 7 is the minimum Java version required for v2.x line

Features

• issue #19: Add support to populate arrays and collection types
• issue #24: Add support to exclude subfields using the dotted notation
• issue #25: Add support to populate immutable objects
• issue #30: Add random seed parameter
• issue #32: Add the RandomizerRegistry API as a SPI to register custom randomizers
• issue #33: Add support for recursive data structures
• issue #36: Add support to register randomizers using the @Randomizer annotation
• issue #59: Add support to scan the classpath for concrete types when the field is an abstract or interface type
• issue #61: Add support to skip fields using the SkipRandomizer API

Bug fixes

• issue #37: Fix incorrect error message in MapRandomizer
• issue #44: Fix StackOverflowError when a field is of the same type as declaring class (infinite recursion)
• issue #56: Fix regression of #1 , Random Beans should not try to populate static final fields

Enhancements

• issue #39: Throw an ObjectGenerationException when unable to randomize a field instead of silently ignoring it
• issue #26: Modularisation of the code base
• issues #45 #48 #52: Several test improvements