/* * Copyright (C) 2021 Gabriel Venberg * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see . */ /** * utility library for nicely formatted ascii tables. * @author Gabriel Venberg */ public class ASCIITable { /** * generates an ASCII table based on a 2d data array. the top level array is an array of rows. * @param data 2d array containing data to put in table * @param padding how much padding to put on each side of entries * @param tableHeader string to put in the table header (may cause problems if extremely long) * @param columnHeaders array of strings to put at the top of each column. * @return */ public static String render(Object data[][], int padding, String tableHeader, String[] columnHeaders) throws IllegalArgumentException { int cols = calcNoCols(data); if(cols!=columnHeaders.length){throw new IllegalArgumentException("must have equal number of column headers as columns!");} int[] colWidths = calcColumnWidth(cols, data, columnHeaders); //colWidths does not count padding or the | chars betwwen tables. int width = sumOfArray(colWidths)+padding*cols*2+(cols-1); String horizontalSpacer = assembleHorizontalSpacers(colWidths, padding, cols); /*ok, so each cell will have the colwidth for the data, then padding for padding, * then a | at the end. (plus 1 at the begginning of the table. there will be 2 rows for each row of data (horizontal sep) plus a horizontal sep at the end. */ String string = horizontalSpacer+'\n'; //print table header string=string+tableHeader(tableHeader, width)+"\n"; string = string+horizontalSpacer+"\n"; //print coumn headers string=string+columnHeaderString(colWidths, padding, columnHeaders)+'\n'; //got everything set up, build the table row by row. for(int i=0; i