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HimanshuTayal
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5 years ago

How to generate a random Number, String, AlphaNumeric string

This below function will generate random Number, String, alphaNumeric string as what you pass in parameters. Refer below code and help yourself in generating random numbers       def num = g...
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aaronpliu
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import org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils
import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.DateGroovyMethods

def getRandomAlphanumeric(int len, String format="MMddkkmm") {
  try {
	format.size() < 1 ? RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric(len).toUpperCase() : \
	DateGroovyMethods.format(new Date(), format).concat(RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric(len).toUpperCase())
} catch (Exception e) {
	throw new Exception(e)
 }
}
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HimanshuTayal
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5 years ago

aaronpliu : Could you please add a bit of description so that it will be helpful to understand for help seekers 🙂

Like what this code is doing and how we can use this