A package export that does not exist

Real Aras exports are hard to come by, and the ones you do get are customer data. This generates something the same shape — as many item types as you like, with the awkward parts real exports are full of, and none of the confidentiality.

Not for importing into Aras. This is input for a diagram tool. The GUIDs are invented, the method bodies are nonsense, and some references point nowhere on purpose — which is the point of the data, and exactly what an import must never be given.

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Size

Item types200Relationship types come on top of this — roughly one per five.Properties per item type6Varies by half either way, so the boxes are not all the same height.Item properties22%data_type = item — the foreign keys, and the orange edges in the diagram.From a system package45%Decides what the origin filter shows as System rather than Custom.Methods, forms, workflowsevery 6One method per this many item types; forms, ACLs and the rest follow along.

The awkward parts

This is what makes the data worth anything. A tidy export tells you nothing about whether a tool copes with a real one.

References that point nowhere3%A GUID nothing defines, under a name nothing carries. Counted out, not rolled for — above 0% you always get at least one.References written by name25%As a nested <Item action="get"> carrying only a name, without a GUID. Aras writes most references this way.Polymorphic item types5%implementation_type = polymorphic with Morphae — the dotted classification edges.The rest of the messData types that do not exist, duplicate property names on one item type, properties without a name. All of it turns up in real exports.

Seed

The same seed always gives the same export, so something you find once can be looked at again.

The same generator runs on the command line: npm run generate:export -- --help. For real exports there is Aras Labs on GitHub — over 160 community projects under the MIT licence, most of them published as import packages. More on that in the guide.

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