Going back to origins.

[mikila85]

Hi,
arriving to you from your original post at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413342/are-there-any-tools-to-populate-class-properties-with-random-data

i tried todo the same thing and to create this project until i found yours,
the problem is i still cant find the use of attributes(in class) in order to determine the type of the field.

am i missing it or it got neglected on the way?

p.s.
What worked was calling the Name as "EmailAddress" .. but the name is Email ..
i tried:

[Attribute("EmailAddress")]
public string Email{ get; set; }

[EmailAddress]
public string Email{ get; set; }

[Hydrator("EmailAddress")]
public string Email{ get; set; }

please help.

[mikila85]

Ok,

i managed to solve this (if anyone ever needs it) by creating an attribute:

[Hydrator(Kind="email")]
public string ElectronicMail { get; set; }

public class HydratorAttribute : Attribute
{
    public string Kind;
}

and changing the mapping to match:

Add(new Map<string>()
        .Matching(info =>
        {
            HydratorAttribute hydratorType = info.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(HydratorAttribute), false).Cast<HydratorAttribute>().FirstOrDefault();
            return hydratorType != null && hydratorType.Kind == "email";
        })
        .Using(new EmailAddressGenerator()));

[PrintsCharming]

I ended up not doing Attributes just due to the clutter they tend to gather on classes. I opted for configuring it in the Hyrdrator. It was just a personal choice really.