Cant generate address by Locale

[amedvedjev]

Describe the bug I am trying to generate fake address data by country using supported locales.

To Reproduce

        Faker faker = new Faker(new Locale("en-US"));
        System.out.println(String.format("en-US: %s", faker.address().country()));
        faker = new Faker(new Locale("hu"));
        System.out.println(String.format("hu: %s", faker.address().country()));
        faker = new Faker(Locale.FRANCE);
        System.out.println(String.format("FRANCE: %s", faker.address().country()));
        faker = new Faker(Locale.UK);
        System.out.println(String.format("UK: %s", faker.address().country()));

Expected behavior Real address data per selected locale.

Result Random data.

en-US: Panama
hu: Málta
FRANCE: Kyrgyz Republic
UK: Fiji

Versions:

• OS: macOS 10.15.3
• JDK: 1.8.0_231-b11
• Faker Version: 1.0.2

[Juan-Chen45]

Our group are interested in this issue, we will try to fix it. ---- SE_Sustech

[Jiapeng-Pei]

Unfortunately, the way you use javafaker is wrong. France/UK are countries that don't contain other countries, even if you set these locale, faker.address.country() still return random countries. You can call faker.address.city() or faker.address.state() and the result will be right.

[cheekymonkat]

I am also having the same problem

Faker.instance(new Locale("en","GB")).address().state()

returns US states not UK. The whole address is affected - It doesn't happen with other locales.

[youyumeimei]

Hello @amedvedjev , our group are interested in this issue, and we will try to fix it. ---- SE_SUSTech, group: Lanrand

[bodiam]

@youyumeimei this library is no longer maintained. An active fork is hosted at www.datafaker.net

Would you be willing to contribute there? We release a new version every month.