lib/random: unify random string generation into random.String

This was factored from fstest as we were including the testing
enviroment into the main binary because of it.

This was causing opening the browser to fail because of 8243ff8bc8.
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Nick Craig-Wood 2019-08-06 12:44:08 +01:00
parent 72d5b11d1b
commit 5065c422b4
12 changed files with 63 additions and 65 deletions

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lib/random/random.go Normal file
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// Package random holds a few functions for working with random numbers
package random
import "math/rand"
// String create a random string for test purposes
func String(n int) string {
const (
vowel = "aeiou"
consonant = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz"
digit = "0123456789"
)
pattern := []string{consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant, digit}
out := make([]byte, n)
p := 0
for i := range out {
source := pattern[p]
p = (p + 1) % len(pattern)
out[i] = source[rand.Intn(len(source))]
}
return string(out)
}