pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go

package namesgenerator

import (
	"fmt"
	"math/rand"
	"time"
)

type NameChecker interface {
	Exists(name string) bool
}

var (
	left = [...]string{"happy", "jolly", "dreamy", "sad", "angry", "pensive", "focused", "sleepy", "grave", "distracted", "determined", "stoic", "stupefied", "sharp", "agitated", "cocky", "tender", "goofy", "furious", "desperate", "hopeful", "compassionate", "silly", "lonely", "condescending", "naughty", "kickass", "drunk", "boring", "nostalgic", "ecstatic", "insane", "cranky", "mad", "jovial", "sick", "hungry", "thirsty", "elegant", "backstabbing", "clever", "trusting", "loving", "suspicious", "berserk", "high", "romantic", "prickly", "evil"}
	// Docker 0.7.x generates names from notable scientists and hackers.
	//
	// Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull)
	// Ada Yonath - an Israeli crystallographer, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yonath
	// Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine
	// Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing.
	// Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
	// Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Par%C3%A9
	// Archimedes was a physicist, engineer and mathematician who invented too many things to list them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
	// Barbara McClintock - a distinguished American cytogeneticist, 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for discovering transposons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
	// Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiments in electricity and the invention of the lightning rod.
	// Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage.
	// Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.
	// Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson created UNIX and the C programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
	// Douglas Engelbart gave the mother of all demos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
	// Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell
	// Emmett Brown invented time travel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff)
	// Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi.
	// Erna Schneider Hoover revolutionized modern communication by inventing a computerized telephon switching method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover
	// Euclid invented geometry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid
	// Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - French virologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; her work was fundamental in identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi
	// Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to establish scientific truth.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
	// Gertrude Elion - American biochemist, pharmacologist and the 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Elion
	// Grace Hopper developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and  is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
	// Henry Poincare made fundamental contributions in several fields of mathematics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9
	// Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
	// Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
	// Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female American botanist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden
	// Jane Goodall - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who is considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
	// Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings, was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik
	// Jean E. Sammet developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet
	// Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf
	// John McCarthy invented LISP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
	// June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella virus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida
	// Karen Spärck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones
	// Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci.
	// Linus Torvalds invented Linux and Git. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
	// Lise Meitner - Austrian/Swedish physicist who was involved in the discovery of nuclear fission. The element meitnerium is named after her - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
	// Louis Pasteur discovered vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur.
	// Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean
	// Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli
	// Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch
	// Maria Mayer - American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mayer
	// Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie.
	// Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande
	// Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey
	// Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī was a founding father of astronomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_J%C4%81bir_al-%E1%B8%A4arr%C4%81n%C4%AB_al-Batt%C4%81n%C4%AB
	// Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr.
	// Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gaget ever used by a James Bond villain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
	// Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat
	// Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist, her book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
	// Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer and most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman
	// Richard Feynman was a key contributor to quantum mechanics and particle physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
	// Rob Pike was a key contributor to Unix, Plan 9, the X graphic system, utf-8, and the Go programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
	// Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the understanding of DNA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
	// Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya
	// Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
	// Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
	// Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Apple II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
	// Werner Heisenberg was a founding father of quantum mechanics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
	// William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain and John Bardeen co-invented the transistor (thanks Brian Goff).
	//	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen
	//	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain
	//	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
	right = [...]string{"lovelace", "franklin", "tesla", "einstein", "bohr", "davinci", "pasteur", "nobel", "curie", "darwin", "turing", "ritchie", "torvalds", "pike", "thompson", "wozniak", "galileo", "euclid", "newton", "fermat", "archimedes", "poincare", "heisenberg", "feynman", "hawking", "fermi", "pare", "mccarthy", "engelbart", "babbage", "albattani", "ptolemy", "bell", "wright", "lumiere", "morse", "mclean", "brown", "bardeen", "brattain", "shockley", "goldstine", "hoover", "hopper", "bartik", "sammet", "jones", "perlman", "wilson", "kowalevski", "hypatia", "goodall", "mayer", "elion", "blackwell", "lalande", "kirch", "ardinghelli", "colden", "almeida", "leakey", "meitner", "mestorf", "rosalind", "sinoussi", "carson", "mcclintock", "yonath"}
)

func GenerateRandomName(checker NameChecker) (string, error) {
	retry := 5
	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
	name := fmt.Sprintf("%s_%s", left[rand.Intn(len(left))], right[rand.Intn(len(right))])
	for checker != nil && checker.Exists(name) && retry > 0 || name == "boring_wozniak" /* Steve Wozniak is not boring */ {
		name = fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", name, rand.Intn(10))
		retry = retry - 1
	}
	if retry == 0 {
		return name, fmt.Errorf("Error generating random name")
	}
	return name, nil
}