[PROPOSAL] RandomDate : use "now/currentDate" for minDate or maxDate

[EricSimon]

In order to reuse automatically the masking and to preserve data consitency. It would be interesting to be able to configure minDate or maxDate with the current date (or currentDate +/-i)

[EricSimon]

Examples :

masks: 
      - add: ""
      - randDate:
          dateMin: "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"
          dateMax: "now"

masks: 
      - add: ""
      - randDate:
          dateMin: "now"
          dateMax: "2022-12-31T00:00:00Z"

example with offset (day) :

masks: 
      - add: ""
      - randDate:
          dateMin: "now - 1"
          dateMax: "now +1"

[EricSimon]

now is in UTC

[adrienaury]

Ok for the "now" value.

But "now + 1", ... can be handled with existing masks :

• https://github.com/CGI-FR/PIMO#duration
• https://github.com/CGI-FR/PIMO#randomDuration

[youen]

For long process the now value is the current time at pimo startup or the current time when the mask is applied for each line (like the sprig function now() in template) ?

[EricSimon]

I think that "now" should be valued only one time for consistency and performance

[adrienaury]

I think that "now" should be valued only one time for consistency and performance

For add-transient we defined a "cleanup" process that is executed by a mask once at the end of the pipeline (see https://github.com/CGI-FR/PIMO/blob/main/pkg/addtransient/add-transient.go#L63), maybe we should use a similar process for "init" (i.e. execute a code once, before the pipeline) ?