Add Min/Max length for faker.name.fullName and faker.name.lastName

[h2oearth]

Clear and concise description of the problem

Some input fields may require that the first/last name does not exceed X number of characters

Suggested solution

provide an option to set min/max string length, and otherwise use default values.

Alternative

No response

Additional context

No response

[ST-DDT]

Do you need this feature or is it just an idea?

How should users behave if their name is longer than the given limit?

[h2oearth]

@ST-DDT We need that feature. Otherwise, we will experience random failures because the firstName is too short. I am considering concatenating a constant number of characters to avoid that issue. Rather than increasing the minimum number of characters by default, IMO is better to allow the user to pick that option.

We do not have any issue if the name is too long because we cap the maximum length.

[Shinigami92]

I'm not sure about this proposal
Faker is a data generator which aims for producing random valid looking data, but Faker might not be a database seeder 🤔

So the results produced by faker's names helps you to spot potential issues with your form assumptions
You might then want to throw validation errors in your form or retry to generate a next value until you have one that fits your needs

This is just what came into my mind, so not a final decision or similar, we might want to discuss this with the team in one of your next meetings

[h2oearth]

I 100% agree that fakers help to spot potential issues with length validation, but allowing the user to pick a max/min range will provide additional flexibility to the user to spot issues. For instance, if I know the min length that some of my fields can accept is 5 characters. I would like to know how my system is going to behave if I set up the range to min= 3 and max = 4. I would like to have more control over the length.

[Minozzzi]

I understand the @h2oearth idea. Maybe the optional { min, max} options might be interesting.

[Minozzzi]

@ST-DDT @Shinigami92 does it make sense to implement a min and max parameter?

[ST-DDT]

Please wait a bit so we have time to discuss this in depth with the team.

What do you expect to happen if a locale does not have an entry matching the requested size?