PlaceHodor
Not your grandpa's Lorem Ipsum generator.
About
PlaceHodor is a fast, flexible framework for generating placeholder sentences algorithmically, implemented to generate ones as spoken by Hodor. That is to say, "Hodor Hodor Hodor, Hodor Hodor. Hodor." Use PlaceHodor whenever you've got space to fill and no content with which to fill it. Let PlaceHodor be your placeholder.
Architecture
PlaceHodor is a RESTful service built on JAX-RS. To ease boilerplating and make things flexible, it uses Google Guice for DI. Data transfer mapping is provided by Google Gson. It uses Apache Commons Lang in a couple places for string manipulation.
Design
The Sentence resource defines the primary API endpoint at /sentence. This class contains minimal code for responding
to requests and primarily calls upon its (injected, concretely-implemented) SentenceFactory to get its sentence(s).
The SentenceFactory uses its LexiconFactory and SentenceTemplateFactory (also Guice-injected) to create
sentences. Here, it is concretely implemented in GibberishSentenceFactory, which creates specific words from the
lexicon in the order specified by the template without regard to grammar or syntax.
The SentenceTemplateFactory creates Iterables of a collection of tokens representing the structure of a sentence.
It's implemented in PlaceHodor by RandomSentenceTemplateFactory, which designs fairly meaningless sentence templates.
(If they have syntactic validity, it's only by accident.)
Finally, the LexiconFactory interface (via the Abstract Factory Pattern) defines a factory for obtaining Sets of
words organized by type (noun, verb, etc.), to create a "lexicon."
The Result
GET /sentence HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
"Hodor Hodor Hodor; Hodor Hodor Hodor -- Hodor Hodor ... Hodor -- Hodor Hodor."