Set the seed for the generated data to become constant

[Ekleog]

Hello! I'm looking into mockd to generate test data for my integration tests.

However, seeing how I'll need to refer to the generated data in my tests, I'm wondering if it'd make sense to have a way to set the seed, so that the randomly-generated data is always the same?

For now I'll probably just use mockd to generate a SQL file of data to then create my database, but it'd be awesome to remove that checked-in SQL file and instead just fill the database live.

WDYT?

[jerusdp]

The thought had occurred, but I hadn't got any further.

Would require:

• Public random generator with seeding
• enable use of public random number generator random data generators
• default seeding when not set

Any other thoughts?

Jerry