Faker: How to avoid special characters in faker string field

[elangovan-selvaraj]

I used faker to dump data. But i don't want special character in faker data. Sometimes Faker::Name.first_name return data with single quotes.

Example :
Faker::Name.first_name -> "O'Hara"

[Shwetakale]

@elangovan91 Here data is coming from here

And if you don't want special characters to be present in name I think this name should be removed from fake data but that is valid name and currently I didn't find option to reject such names.

[b264]

Sometimes having special characters in test data can make your code more robust if it can deal with those. I would argue there aren't enough special characters

[Jack-Barry]

Maybe use something like

Faker::Name.first_name.gsub(/\W/, '')

since it's returning a string

[elangovan-selvaraj]

Thank You guys for your suggestion. @Jack-Barry I used your concept.

[con-hluong]

In case of filename, I replaced the special character with alternative character using this: randomFileName = getFaker().file().fileName().replace("\",randomFileNameDelimiter);

[chrishough]

It seems really odd, that I have to add this...

    first_name { Faker::Name.last_name.gsub(/\W/, '').gsub("\u0000", '') }
    last_name { Faker::Name.last_name.gsub(/\W/, '').gsub("\u0000", '') }

to guarantee these work correctly.