makeTimeTable

make time table is for generating dynamic random time table data.

Background

When developing applications dealing with transporation, usually concern the railway, aviation or public transporation industry ... You'll want to have some time table data simulate like a real schedule, but to manually come up such kind of time data is a pain in the ass. That's why I wrote this tool to dynamically generate fake and random time table data.

Quick Start

var makeTimeTable = require('maketimetable'),
    data;

// first option, generate time table data by specify the number of stages
data = makeTimeTable({
    start: new Date('2015-04-18 08:01'),
        number: 56
    });

// second option, generate time table data by specify the stops
data = makeTimeTable({
    start: new Date('2015-04-18 08:01'),
    stops: [
        'Shanghai',
        'Nanjing',
        'Beijing',
        'Dalian'
    ]
});

Use as command line tool

maketimetable -f <path_to_configuration_file>
maketimetable -c <configuration_json_string>

if your configuration is correct, the json string of generated data will be output to the terminal screen.

Options

• -f
  -f option allow you to furthur specify an argument which is a path to the a configuration file that tells the tool what kind of time table data to generate.
• -c
  -c option is like -f, but instead of specify a file path, you specify a configuration json string directly.

Configuration

{
    "start": "2015-04-18 04:04",    // specify the departure time for the first stage
    "stops": ["A", "B", "C", "D"],  // spedify the stops
    "number": 56                    // specify how many stages you want, if stops propery is also specified, number
                                    // will be ignored
}