Output for creation is unreadable

[MoOx]

I just created a repo using gitlab create_project NAME.

Here is the output

❯ gitlab create_project "jsx-test-helpers"
+----------+------------+----------------+--------------------------+------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------+---------+----------------+--------------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------+-------+------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------+----------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------------+------------+----------+------------------+------------------------------------------+--------------+
|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Gitlab.create_project jsx-test-helpers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
+----------+------------+----------------+--------------------------+------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------+---------+----------------+--------------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------+-------+------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------+----------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------------+------------+----------+------------------+------------------------------------------+--------------+
| archived | avatar_url | builds_enabled | created_at               | creator_id | default_branch | description | forks_count | http_url_to_repo                             | id      | issues_enabled | last_activity_at         | merge_requests_enabled | name             | name_with_namespace                | namespace | open_issues_count | owner | path             | path_with_namespace   | public | public_builds | runners_token        | shared_runners_enabled | snippets_enabled | ssh_url_to_repo                          | star_count | tag_list | visibility_level | web_url                                  | wiki_enabled |
+----------+------------+----------------+--------------------------+------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------+---------+----------------+--------------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------+-------+------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------+----------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------------+------------+----------+------------------+------------------------------------------+--------------+
| false    | null       | true           | 2016-04-08T07:33:47.877Z | 388578     | null           | null        | 0           | https://gitlab.com/MoOx/jsx-test-helpers.git | 1049329 | true           | 2016-04-08T07:33:50.479Z | true                   | jsx-test-helpers | Maxime Thirouin / jsx-test-helpers | Hash      | 0                 | Hash  | jsx-test-helpers | MoOx/jsx-test-helpers | false  | true          | ******************** | true                   | false            | git@gitlab.com:MoOx/jsx-test-helpers.git | 0          | []       | 0                | https://gitlab.com/MoOx/jsx-test-helpers | true         |
+----------+------------+----------------+--------------------------+------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------------------------------+---------+----------------+--------------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------+-----------+-------------------+-------+------------------+-----------------------+--------+---------------+----------------------+------------------------+------------------+------------------------------------------+------------+----------+------------------+------------------------------------------+--------------+

As you can see, in raw text, it's ok. But In my terminal, it's unreadable.

[iainsmith]

Does anyone know if there is a nice way to deal with this in terminal-table?

If not, it's we could abbreviate (or maybe omit) some columns.

• created_at, updated_at, last_activity_at could all be abbreviated to relative dates "1 day ago" or completely omitted
• name is redundant compared to name_with_namespace
• Columns that are all entirely null could also be omitted.

If we omit some fields by default it would be good to add a verbose flag.

[gligoran]

You can use the --only switch to get something like this:

gitlab create_project test --only=id,name,ssh_url_to_repo
+---------+------+----------------------------------+
| Gitlab.create_project test, --only=id,name,ssh_url_to_repo |
+---------+------+----------------------------------+
| id      | name | ssh_url_to_repo                  |
+---------+------+----------------------------------+
| 13***** | test | git@gitlab.com:********/test.git |
+---------+------+----------------------------------+

What would really be awesome is the ability to get raw data, so you could pipe it further. For example to pipe the ssh_url_to_repo directly into a git remote add origin.

[Nakilon]

Maybe transpose?

[asedge]

@gligoran you can use --json to get fairly close to raw data and then use the jq tool to parse out only the field you want. Kind of like this:

$ gitlab projects '{per_page: 1}' --json | jq '.result[].ssh_url_to_repo'
"git@git.example.org:foo/dockerfiles.git"

[asedge]

Terminal table is kind of ugly, sorry. I suggested using --json and parsing with jq. Hopefully you found something worth your while.