Grouped country data

[dil-abertok]

I just run into the issue of not being able to generate country data (e.g. country name and country code) that belongs together, as opposed to e.g. the Person() method, or the Currency, that contains the currency name and the currency code.
The full dataset I am looking for is something like this:

var country = faker.Country();
country.Dump();

/*
{
  "Name" : "United States"
  "CountryCode" : {
    "Alpha2" : "US",
    "Alpha2" : "USA"
  },
  "Currency" : {
    "Code" : "USD",
    "Description" : "US Dollar",
    "Symbol" : "$"
  }
}
*/

I have the feeling that this is a limitation of the faker dataset that is not structured in a way that associating this data is trivial. Am I correct to assume that this would probably be a dataset change request in Faker.js?

[bchavez]

Hi. Yes, that's correct.

The country code is just a list/array of string:

• Bogus/Source/Bogus/data/en.locale.json

  Lines 289 to 294 in 9d6c22c

  	"country_code": [
  	"AD",
  	"AE",
  	"AF",
  	"AG",
  	"AI",

And currency is slightly more structured, but not exactly in the way you're looking for:

• Bogus/Source/Bogus/data/en.locale.json

  Lines 8157 to 8167 in 9d6c22c

  	"currency": [
  	{
  	"name": "UAE Dirham",
  	"code": "AED",
  	"symbol": ""
  	},
  	{
  	"name": "Afghani",
  	"code": "AFN",
  	"symbol": "؋"
  	},

The easiest is to find a CSV or some kind of list/data that has the object structure you're looking for and throw an extension method around your custom data & if you want to use Bogus' .Random APIs.