package random

import "github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go/random"

This package is part of the Antithesis Go SDK, which enables Go applications to integrate with the Antithesis platform.

The random package provides an interface that allows your program to ask the Antithesis platform for random entropy. These functions are also safe to call outside the Antithesis environment, where they will fall back on values from crypto/rand.

These functions should not be used to seed a conventional PRNG, and should not have their return values stored and used to make a decision at a later time. Doing either of these things makes it much harder for the Antithesis platform to control the history of your program's execution, and also makes it harder for Antithesis to learn which inputs provided at which times are most fruitful. Instead, you should call a function from the random package every time your program or workload needs to make a decision, at the moment that you need to make the decision.

Index

• func GetRandom() uint64
• func RandomChoice(things []any) any

Functions

func GetRandom

func GetRandom() uint64

Returns a uint64 value chosen by Antithesis. You should not store this value or use it to seed a PRNG, but should use it immediately.

func RandomChoice

func RandomChoice(things []any) any

Returns a randomly chosen item from a list of options. You should not store this value, but should use it immediately.

This function is not purely for convenience. Signaling to the Antithesis platform that you intend to use a random value in a structured way enables it to provide more interesting choices over time.