generate a random string in java

1import java.util.Random;
2
3public class Generator {
4	public static String generateRandomPassword(int len) {
5		String chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijk"
6          +"lmnopqrstuvwxyz!@#$%&";
7		Random rnd = new Random();
8		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(len);
9		for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
10			sb.append(chars.charAt(rnd.nextInt(chars.length())));
11		return sb.toString();
12	}
13}

1RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric(17).toUpperCase()

1@Test
2public void givenUsingJava8_whenGeneratingRandomAlphabeticString_thenCorrect() {
3    int leftLimit = 97; // letter 'a'
4    int rightLimit = 122; // letter 'z'
5    int targetStringLength = 10;
6    Random random = new Random();
7
8    String generatedString = random.ints(leftLimit, rightLimit + 1)
9      .limit(targetStringLength)
10      .collect(StringBuilder::new, StringBuilder::appendCodePoint, StringBuilder::append)
11      .toString();
12
13    System.out.println(generatedString);
14}