From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-02-02T02:30:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155)


On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

>   Maybe just have a little ruby
> script that generates a stream of repeatable random (but valid) JSON.

cfp2:~ > cat a.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'

def random_json
   case rand
     when 0 ... 1/3.0
       top = Hash.new
       add = lambda{|obj| top[obj] = obj}
     when 1/3.0 ... 2/3.0
       top = Array.new
       add = lambda{|obj| top.push obj}
     when 2/3.0 .. 1
       top = String.new
       add = lambda{|obj| top += obj}
   end
   10.times{ add[rand.to_s] }
   top.to_json
end

puts random_json


cfp2:~ > for i in `seq 1 3`;do ruby a.rb ;done
"0.3786779826911330.2475380034343990.7052927081471540.2056530009384740.1367079874315110.6433874613518640.5329060341883540.8932613322492760.9233991888762390.561470121133217
"
{"0.758942077040095":"0.758942077040095","0.740998718448961":"0.740998718448961","0.581975309640819":"0.581975309640819","0.471066491788047":"0.471066491788047","0.150752108985123":"0.150752108985123","0.679712508205116":"0.679712508205116","0.265444532310993":"0.265444532310993","0.43229805237576":"0.43229805237576","0.880407977937905":"0.880407977937905","0.91896885679168":"0.91896885679168"}
["0.140526101058637
","0.647296447390116
","0.419874655921874
","0.67320818546074
","0.847043108967541
","0.479385904117001
","0.378678170026127
","0.707315391952609","0.26064520446906","0.460184583302929"]

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