Generating synthetic data from a scan report without Field Values results in empty CSV files

[howff]

Describe the bug
Generating synthetic data from a scan report without Field Values results in empty CSV files

To Reproduce

• Scan without Field Values ticked
• Generate from that scan report
• CSV files are created but completely empty (zero bytes)

Expected behavior
Something in the CSV files

[janblom]

The code fake data generation was developed some 6 years ago, and has never left the experimental stage, at least according to the documentation

What I can tell from the code:

• fake data generation was developed with using the existing field values in mind: values are randomly chosen from the values in the scan report
• if field values are not in the scan report, like in your case, there is some code present that attempts to generate completely random data
• for generating random data, the type of the fields is used, and some types, like Date and Float, are not supported
• if the scan report contains no types for the fields (e.g. when run on csv files), no data will be generated
• if the scan report contains a zero (0) value in the the "N rows checked" column(s) in the "Table Overview" sheet, no data will be generated at all. This will be the case when "Scan without Field Values" is ticked; you can of course circumvent this by changing the 0 to 1 for each table you want to have data for, but then you still end up with random data (or incomplete data), for which I cannot see much value.

There is no simple, obvious and meaningful fix for this use case, as far as I can tell.