structable 0.3.4

A crate for 'serializing' structs as Vec<Vec<String>> tables
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StructTable

Representing data to the user (i.e. in CLI or TUI) usually requires converting data into vector of vector of strings with the data. Further this data is being passed to tools like comfy_table, cli-tableor similar. Preparing such data is a tedious job. This is where StructTable is coming to help.

For a structure like:

#[derive(Serialize, StructTable)]
struct User {
    #[structable(title = "ID")]
    id: u64,
    first_name: String,
    last_name: String,
    #[structable(title = "Long", wide)]
    extra: String,
    #[structable(optional, serialize, wide)]
    complex_data: Option<Value>,
    #[structable(optional)]
    dummy: Option<String>,
}

What you get is:

impl StructTable for User {
    fn headers<O: StructTableOptions>(
        options: &O,
    ) -> ::std::vec::Vec<::std::string::String> {
        let mut headers: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
        if options.should_return_field("ID", false) {
            headers.push("ID".to_string());
        }
        if options.should_return_field("first_name", false) {
            headers.push("first_name".to_string());
        }
        if options.should_return_field("last_name", false) {
            headers.push("last_name".to_string());
        }
        if options.should_return_field("Long", true) {
            headers.push("Long".to_string());
        }
        if options.should_return_field("complex_data", true) {
            headers.push("complex_data".to_string());
        }
        if options.should_return_field("dummy", false) {
            headers.push("dummy".to_string());
        }
        headers
    }

    fn data<O: StructTableOptions>(
        &self,
        options: &O,
    ) -> ::std::vec::Vec<Option<::std::string::String>> {
        let mut row: Vec<Option<String>> = Vec::new();
        if options.should_return_field("ID", false) {
            row.push(Some(self.id.to_string()));
        }
        if options.should_return_field("first_name", false) {
            row.push(Some(self.first_name.to_string()));
        }
        if options.should_return_field("last_name", false) {
            row.push(Some(self.last_name.to_string()));
        }
        if options.should_return_field("Long", true) {
            row.push(Some(self.extra.to_string()));
        }
        if options.should_return_field("complex_data", true) {
            row.push(
                self
                    .complex_data
                    .clone()
                    .map(|v| {
                        if options.pretty_mode() {
                            serde_json::to_string_pretty(&v)
                        } else {
                            serde_json::to_string(&v)
                        }
                            .unwrap_or_else(|_| String::from(
                                "<ERROR SERIALIZING DATA>",
                            ))
                    }),
            );
        }
        if options.should_return_field("dummy", false) {
            row.push(self.dummy.clone().map(|x| x.to_string()));
        }
        row
    }
    fn status(&self) -> Option<String> {
        None
    }
}

Usage

use structable::{build_table, build_list_table};
use structable::{OutputConfig, StructTable, StructTableOptions};

#[derive(Serialize, StructTable)]
struct User {
    #[structable(title = "ID")]
    id: u64,
    first_name: &'static str,
    last_name: &'static str,
    #[structable(title = "Long(only in wide mode)", wide)]
    extra: &'static str,
    #[structable(optional, pretty)]
    complex_data: Option<Value>
}

let users = vec![
    User {
        id: 1,
        first_name: "Scooby",
        last_name: "Doo",
        extra: "Foo",
        complex_data: Some(json!({"a": "b", "c": "d"}))
    },
    User {
        id: 2,
        first_name: "John",
        last_name: "Cena",
        extra: "Bar",
        complex_data: None
    },
];
let user = User {
    id: 1,
    first_name: "Scooby",
    last_name: "Doo",
    extra: "XYZ",
    complex_data: Some(json!({"a": "b", "c": "d"}))
};

let config = OutputConfig {
    fields: BTreeSet::from(["Last Name".to_string()]),
    wide: false,
    pretty: false
};

let data = build_table(&user, &config);
println!("Single user {:?} => {:?}", data.0, data.1);
let data2 = build_list_table(users.iter(), &config);
println!("multiple users {:?} => {:?}", data2.0, data2.1);

Single user ["Attribute", "Value"] => [["id", "1"], ["first_name", "Scooby"], ["last_name", "Doo"], ["long_only", "XYZ"]]
multiple user ["id", "first_name", "last_name", "long_only"] => [["1", "Scooby", "Doo", "Foo"], ["2", "John", "Cena", "Bar"]]