Enhance Datagen with Protobuf Support and Nested Key References

[recursethis]

What type of PR is this?

• [ ] ♻️ Refactor
• [X] ✨ Feature
• [ ] 🐛 Bug Fix
• [ ] 👷 Optimization
• [X] 📝 Documentation Update
• [ ] 🚩 Other

Description

• updated faker-js to 8.0.0
• added the ability to reference a value in a nested key in the json schema using the dot (.) separator
• Kafka data generator can produced output messages in the protobuf format. Protobuf schema definitions are referenced in the _meta of the json schema.

Added to documentation?

• [X] 📜 readme
• [ ] 🙅 no documentation needed

[CLAassistant]

All committers have signed the CLA.

[chuck-alt-delete]

Thanks for the PR! I’ll take a look

[recursethis]

Hi. Thank you for the feedback!

I'll reply to comments, and I'll make sure to update the PR, once I get time to do so!

Thank you so much for this program! It's great!