From 906cbe30b2244abd43c2d0d52137aafbc11cf96c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ping Yu <4018+pyu10055@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:13:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] support string dtype input generation (#8003)

FEATURE
---
 e2e/benchmarks/benchmark_util.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/e2e/benchmarks/benchmark_util.js b/e2e/benchmarks/benchmark_util.js
index 414489d780b..d6a9d249d56 100644
--- a/e2e/benchmarks/benchmark_util.js
+++ b/e2e/benchmarks/benchmark_util.js
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ function generateInputFromDef(inputDefs, isForGraphModel = false) {
         // the data generated maybe outside of [min, max].
         inputTensor = tf.clipByValue(generatedRaw, min, max);
         generatedRaw.dispose();
+      } else if (inputDef.dtype === 'string') {
+        size = tf.util.sizeFromShape(inputDef.shape);
+        data = [...Array(size)].map(
+            () => Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 7));
+        inputTensor = tf.tensor(data, inputShape, inputDef.dtype);
       } else {
         throw new Error(
             `The ${inputDef.dtype} dtype of '${inputDef.name}' input ` +