From 97188d65834ab38a7b8d63daa05bbff33a8de453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stack72 <public@paulstack.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:05:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Adding a RandomString generator to test for
 db_param_group_name being too long

---
 .../resource_aws_db_parameter_group_test.go   | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_parameter_group_test.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_parameter_group_test.go
index 354c16db9..2df4ce3c4 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_parameter_group_test.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_db_parameter_group_test.go
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package aws
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"math/rand"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
@@ -151,6 +153,15 @@ func TestResourceAWSDBParameterGroupName_trailingHyphen(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestResourceAWSDBParameterGroupName_tooManyCharacters(t *testing.T) {
+	dbParamGroupName := RandomString(256)
+	_, errors := validateDbParamGroupName(dbParamGroupName, "SampleKey")
+
+	if len(errors) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected the DB Parameter Group Name to trigger a validation error")
+	}
+}
+
 func testAccCheckAWSDBParameterGroupDestroy(s *terraform.State) error {
 	conn := testAccProvider.Meta().(*AWSClient).rdsconn
 
@@ -238,6 +249,16 @@ func testAccCheckAWSDBParameterGroupExists(n string, v *rds.DBParameterGroup) re
 	}
 }
 
+func RandomString(strlen int) string {
+	rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
+	const chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
+	result := make([]byte, strlen)
+	for i := 0; i < strlen; i++ {
+		result[i] = chars[rand.Intn(len(chars))]
+	}
+	return string(result)
+}
+
 const testAccAWSDBParameterGroupConfig = `
 resource "aws_db_parameter_group" "bar" {
 	name = "parameter-group-test-terraform"