Skip / hide columns?

[madf0x]

Hey,

it would be nice if you added some methods to skip/suppress columns like RemoveColumn(int index).

I've used a workaround which works for trailing columns where you can do WithColumnFormat(s => "").TrimColumn() but that doesn't work for columns in between and is rather ugly.

What do you think about this?

[minhhungit]

@madf0x that is good idea, I will try to implement it

[minhhungit]

but normally I think you can update your data before you put it into ConsoleTableExt builder

for example:

List <List< object>> sample:

var tableData = new List<List<object>>
{
    new List<object>{ "Sakura Yamamoto", "Support Engineer", "London", 46},
    new List<object>{ "Serge Baldwin", "Data Coordinator", "San Francisco", 28, "something else" },
    new List<object>{ "Shad Decker", "Regional Director", "Edinburgh"},
};

var newData = tableData.Select(x =>
{
    x.RemoveAt(2);
    return x;
}).ToList();

ConsoleTableBuilder
    .From(newData)
    .ExportAndWriteLine();

Datatable sample

 var tblData = new DataTable();
tblData.Columns.Add("Name", typeof(string));
tblData.Columns.Add("Position", typeof(string));
tblData.Columns.Add("Office", typeof(string));
tblData.Columns.Add("Age", typeof(int));
tblData.Columns.Add("Start Date", typeof(DateTime));

tblData.Rows.Add("Airi Satou", "Accountant", "Tokyo", 33, new DateTime(2017, 05, 09));
tblData.Rows.Add("Angelica Ramos", "Chief Executive Officer (CEO)", "New York", 47, new DateTime(2017, 01, 12));
tblData.Rows.Add("Ashton Cox", "Junior Technical Author", "London", 46, new DateTime(2017, 04, 02));
tblData.Rows.Add("Bradley Greer", "Software Engineer", "San Francisco", 28, new DateTime(2017, 11, 15));

tblData.Columns.Remove("Office");
//tblData.Columns.RemoveAt(2);

ConsoleTableBuilder
    .From(tblData)
    .ExportAndWriteLine();

[madf0x]

That doesn't work in the most used case:

List<CustomClass>

When your POCOs contain some long string text attribute, the user might not want to see it in a small overview. That's why you need a skip/hide function.

[minhhungit]

@madf0x work arround like this

var tblData = new List<CustomClass>
{
    new CustomClass
    {
        Id = 1,
        Name = "A",
        Age = 10
    },
    new CustomClass
    {
        Id = 2,
        Name = "B",
        Age = 12
    },
    new CustomClass
    {
        Id = 3,
        Name = "C",
        Age = 15
    }
};

ConsoleTableBuilder
    .From(tblData.Select(x => new { Id = x.Id, Age = x.Age }).ToList())
    .ExportAndWriteLine();

But yes, I will try to implement skip/hide column feature soon