Description

This library displays ascii tables that automatically fit in your terminal and handle most data structures.

Install

To have it in a lein project, add to your project.clj:

[table "0.5.0"]

To have it in a deps.edn project, add to your deps.edn:

{table/table {:mvn/version "0.5.0"}}

To use with babashka, add to bb.edn.

Usage

table handles rendering combinations of maps, vecs, lists and sets nested in one another.

$ lein repl
user=> (require '[table.core :as t])
nil

; These three yields the same table
user=> (t/table [["1" "2"] ["3" "4"]])
user=> (t/table '((1 2) (3 4)))
user=> (t/table #{[1 2] [3 4]})
+---+---+
| 1 | 2 |
+---+---+
| 3 | 4 |
+---+---+

user=> (t/table [{:a 11} {:a 3 :b 22}])
+----+----+
| a  | b  |
+----+----+
| 11 |    |
| 3  | 22 |
+----+----+

table can render different styles of tables:

user=> (t/table [ [1 2] [3 4]] :style :unicode)
┌───┬───┐
│ 1 │ 2 │
├───┼───┤
│ 3 ╎ 4 │
└───┴───┘

user=> (t/table [ [1 2] [3 4]] :style :org)
|---+---|
| 1 | 2 |
|---+---|
| 3 | 4 |
|---+---|

# Yes, these will generate tables for github's markdown
user=> (t/table [ [10 20] [3 4]] :style :github-markdown)

| 10 | 20 |
|--- | ---|
| 3  | 4  |

table can also render custom styles:

user> (t/table [[10 20] [3 4]] :style {:top ["◤ " " ▼ " " ◥"]
                               :top-dash "✈︎"
                               :middle ["▶︎ " "   " " ◀︎"]
                               :dash "✂︎"
                               :bottom ["◣ " " ▲ " " ◢"]
                               :bottom-dash "☺︎"
                               :header-walls ["  " "   " "  "]
                               :body-walls ["  " "   " "  "] })
◤ ✈︎✈︎ ▼ ✈︎✈︎ ◥
  10   20
▶︎ ✂︎✂︎   ✂︎✂︎ ◀︎
  3    4
◣ ☺︎☺︎ ▲ ☺︎☺︎ ◢

table can handle plain maps and vectors of course:

user=> (t/table (meta #'doc))
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| key       | value                                                         |
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| :macro    | true                                                          |
| :ns       | clojure.repl                                                  |
| :name     | doc                                                           |
| :arglists | ([name])                                                      |
| :added    | 1.0                                                           |
| :doc      | Prints documentation for a var or special form given its name |
| :line     | 120                                                           |
| :file     | clojure/repl.clj                                              |
+-----------+---------------------------------------------------------------+

user=> (t/table (seq (.getURLs (java.lang.ClassLoader/getSystemClassLoader))))
+--------------------------------------------------+
| value                                            |
+--------------------------------------------------|
| file:/Users/me/code/gems/table/test/             |
| file:/Users/me/code/gems/table/src/              |
| file:/Users/me/code/gems/table/dev-resources     |
| file:/Users/me/code/gems/table/resources         |
| file:/Users/me/code/gems/table/target/classes/   |
...

Configuration

If your terminal width isn't being auto-detected, you can execute this in your shell before using the repl: export COLUMNS. Alternatively you can bind/alter table.width/*width* to your desired width.

Similar libraries

• Clojure 1.5.0 comes with a similar function clojure.pprint/print-table
• doric is more full-featured than print-table, supporting formats other than text.

table improves on these alternatives by rendering more data structures, supporting different ascii style tables and resizing to fit your terminal.

Bugs/Issues

Please report them on github.

Contributing

See here

TODO

• Handle no rows
• Handle vecs with different sizes
• Escape tabs