Tababular 4.3.0

dotnet add package Tababular --version 4.3.0                
NuGet\Install-Package Tababular -Version 4.3.0                
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<PackageReference Include="Tababular" Version="4.3.0" />                
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paket add Tababular --version 4.3.0                
#r "nuget: Tababular, 4.3.0"                
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install Tababular as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Tababular&version=4.3.0

// Install Tababular as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Tababular&version=4.3.0                

Tababular

A simple .NET monospace text table formatting library for .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6.

You can use it if you are standing with a bunch of objects or dictionaries in your hand, and you wish for them to become as nice as this:

+-------------+--------------+-------------+
| FirstColumn | SecondColumn | ThirdColumn |
+-------------+--------------+-------------+
| r1          | hej          | hej igen    |
+-------------+--------------+-------------+
| r2          | hej          | hej igen    |
+-------------+--------------+-------------+

This can easily be achieved by newing up the TableFormatter like this:

var formatter = new TableFormatter();

and then you call an appropriate Format*** method on it, e.g. FormatObjects:

var objects = new[]
{
	new {FirstColumn = "r1", SecondColumn = "hej", ThirdColumn = "hej igen"},
	new {FirstColumn = "r2", SecondColumn = "hej", ThirdColumn = "hej igen"},
};

var text = tableFormatter.FormatObjects(objects);

Console.WriteLine(text);

which will result in the table shown above.

For now, Tababular does not support that much stuff - but one nice thing about it is that it will properly format lines in cells, so that e.g.

var objects = new[]
{
	new  { MachineName = "ctxtest01", Ip = "10.0.0.10", Ports = new[] {80, 8080, 9090}},
	new  { MachineName = "ctxtest02", Ip = "10.0.0.11", Ports = new[] {80, 5432}}
};

var text = new TableFormatter().FormatObjects(objects);

Console.WriteLine(text);

becomes nice like this:

+-----------+-------------+-------+
| Ip        | MachineName | Ports |
+-----------+-------------+-------+
| 10.0.0.10 | ctxtest01   | 80    |
|           |             | 8080  |
|           |             | 9090  |
+-----------+-------------+-------+
| 10.0.0.11 | ctxtest02   | 80    |
|           |             | 5432  |
+-----------+-------------+-------+

which looks pretty neat if you ask me.

Formatting different things

Tababular can format different things, which at the moment includes:

  • Objects: formatter.FormatObjects(objects)
  • Dictionaries: formatter.FormatDictionaries(dictionaries)
  • JSON: formatter.FormatJson(jsonText)

More niceness

What about longs texts? Consider this example where the "Comments" column can be used to supply arbitrarily long texts:

var objects = new[]
{
	new {MachineName = "ctxtest01", Ip = "10.0.0.10", Ports = new[] {80, 8080, 9090}, Comments = ""},
	new {MachineName = "ctxtest02", Ip = "10.0.0.11", Ports = new[] {5432},
		Comments = @"This bad boy hosts our database and a couple of internal jobs."}
};

var text = new TableFormatter().FormatObjects(objects);

In this case, the resulting table would look like this:

+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| Comments                                                       | Ip        | MachineName | Ports |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
|                                                                | 10.0.0.10 | ctxtest01   | 80    |
|                                                                |           |             | 8080  |
|                                                                |           |             | 9090  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| This bad boy hosts our database and a couple of internal jobs. | 10.0.0.11 | ctxtest02   | 5432  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+

which might be fine, but since the texts can be even longer than this, it might end up being a problem.

Fear not! We can supply a small hint to the table formatter like this:

var hints = new Hints { MaxTableWidth = 80 };
var formatter = new TableFormatter(hints);

and then when we

var text = formatter.FormatObjects(objects);

it will look like this:

+------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| Comments                                       | Ip        | MachineName | Ports |
+------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
|                                                | 10.0.0.10 | ctxtest01   | 80    |
|                                                |           |             | 8080  |
|                                                |           |             | 9090  |
+------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+
| This bad boy hosts our database and a couple   | 10.0.0.11 | ctxtest02   | 5432  |
| of internal jobs.                              |           |             |       |
+------------------------------------------------+-----------+-------------+-------+

and the table will never become wider than at most 80 characters. Objectively speaking, this is actually freaking awesome.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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