How to generate a middleName?

[bloodgang94]

How will the middle name be generated? I use the ru locale. In the class name I did not find a property

[digitalcoyote]

I don't believe the dataset has a middle name. I've been using a second FirstName instead. For my locale that works out well enough. Are Middle names in ru similar to first names?

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 12:42 AM bloodgang94 @.***> wrote:

How will the middle name be generated? I use the ru locale. In the class name I did not find a property

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[salixzs]

If you do not need it to be 100% correct, you can reuse FirstName and if it is Fathers` name, you can modify rule to add "ич" or "ович" to the end, so "Иван" would become "Иванович".

.RuleFor(u => u.MiddleName, f => f.Person.FirstName() + "ович")

Then again if you want it gender safe - you need to build some more logic to add "овна" in case person gender is woman.

[bloodgang94]

If you do not need it to be 100% correct, you can reuse FirstName and if it is Fathers` name, you can modify rule to add "ич" or "ович" to the end, so "Иван" would become "Иванович".

.RuleFor(u => u.MiddleName, f => f.Person.FirstName() + "ович")

Then again if you want it gender safe - you need to build some more logic to add "овна" in case person gender is woman.

Thank you. I need 100% correct reporting. Solved the problem like this :

[bchavez]

It's super great to see the community help with these questions. Great work!

To add to the solutions in this issue; Bogus does contain an "ru" set of gendered middle names. However, the "ru" middle names are not exposed at a top level by C# APIs. The raw data can be found here: https://github.com/bchavez/Bogus/blob/9fc7614274f7f80b889151aa31a5fd2f2d0e610d/Source/Bogus/data/ru.locale.json#L1368-L1372

If you want to access this raw data in C#, you'll need to use lower-level APIs via the raw DB as shown below:

void Main()
{
   var f = new Faker("ru");
   Enumerable.Range(0, 5)
      .Select(_ => f.Name.GetRuMiddleName(Name.Gender.Male))
      .Dump();

   Enumerable.Range(0, 5)
      .Select(_ => f.Name.GetRuMiddleName(Name.Gender.Female))
      .Dump();
}

public static class RuNameExtensions
{
   public static string GetRuMiddleName(this Bogus.DataSets.Name name, Name.Gender gender)
   {
      BArray middleNameData;
      if( gender == Bogus.DataSets.Name.Gender.Male ){
         middleNameData = (BArray)Bogus.Database.Get("name", "male_middle_name", "ru");
      }
      else
      {
         middleNameData = (BArray)Bogus.Database.Get("name", "female_middle_name", "ru");
      }

      return name.Random.ArrayElement(middleNameData);
   }
}

I have no idea if this middle name data for the "ru" locale is correct, but it's there.