Data Providers¶

Data Providers allow the simulation of protocols regarding trading with different kind of data (e.g. binary data vs. XML documents).

Supported Data Providers¶

RandomDataProvider¶

This data provider generates pseudo-random binary data. Data generation is controlled by a (constant) seed. To modify the data, provide another seed value.

Parameters¶

• size: File size, provided as number of bytes or in the form like 1k, 1M, ...
• seed: Initialization value for random generator

FileDataProvider¶

File data provider provides the contents of an actual file to the simulation.

Parameters¶

• filename: Name of the file to be used in simulation.