Marketplace/Fake Data

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Overview

Tools and libraries for generating data are needed to exercise every part of our code without unnecessary storing/sharing of data from production.

Apps can be generated in three ways via management commands:

1. generate_feed -- to create feed data, specifically
2. generate_apps_from_spec {path_to_json_file} -- to create apps according to fake app specs as described in a JSON file
3. generate_apps N -- to create a specific number of apps

The App Types page lists the kinds of apps being generated and username examples.

Engineering Considerations

• generation of apps for feed is done separately from rest of app specification.
• app generation code currently doesn't generate video.
• no current way to specify particular locales/regions.
• no current way to specify content ratings.

Future Features

• we should add an admin page that allows for:
  • identifying (and inspecting) the currently-loaded JSON file
  • uploading a spec file -- so QA can generate specific apps they need easily.
  • developer control of app generation -- so we don't have to rely on ops.
  • removal of specific apps -- in case one problem child (added by QA, for example) breaks things; no sense in blowing away all of the data.

Bugs

Tracking bug: 1059418.

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