From_dataset() doesn't work with json datasets

[user108]

A few months ago I reported an issue with from_dataset not working which was unresolved:

All values null with simple from_dataset()

I am having this same issue. It appears that only null will return and this function is broken. @mockaroo Do you have any input to this?

After studying some of @rich.bateman 's examples I noticed that all of them used a csv file as the referenced dataset. The referenced dataset I had used json. When I changed mine to csv, from_dataset() worked!

This limitation should be mentioned in the docs until it is resolved: Mockaroo - Random Data Generator and API Mocking Tool | JSON / CSV / SQL / Excel

[user449]

Hi Mark @mockaroo,
is there any update on this if it is really true? I wasn’t able to get the from_dataset() function to work, even on the simpliest json datasets. Do you think you guys will be able to fix this?