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Make `bin/lipsum generate` hanldle generator keys and arguments more clearly
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Authored by epriestley on Feb 27 2017, 12:20 PM.
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Summary

Ref T12319. Currently, bin/lipsum uses substring matches against human-readable text to chose which objects to generate.

Instead:

  • Use separate selector keys which are guaranteed to be unique.
  • When a match is exact, select only that generator.
  • When a match is ambiguous, fail and warn the user.
Test Plan

Generated several types of objects, tried to generate ambiguous objects like "e".

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