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/// \file utils/text/table.hpp
/// Table construction and formatting.
#if !defined(UTILS_TEXT_TABLE_HPP)
#define UTILS_TEXT_TABLE_HPP
#include <cstddef>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
namespace utils {
namespace text {
/// Values of the cells of a particular table row.
typedef std::vector< std::string > table_row;
/// Vector of column widths.
typedef std::vector< std::size_t > widths_vector;
/// Representation of a table.
///
/// A table is nothing more than a matrix of rows by columns. The number of
/// columns is hardcoded at construction times, and the rows can be accumulated
/// at a later stage.
///
/// The only value of this class is a simpler and more natural mechanism of the
/// construction of a table, with additional sanity checks. We could as well
/// just expose the internal data representation to our users.
class table {
/// Widths of the table columns so far.
widths_vector _column_widths;
/// Type defining the collection of rows in the table.
typedef std::vector< table_row > rows_vector;
/// The rows of the table.
///
/// This is actually the matrix representing the table. Every element of
/// this vector (which are vectors themselves) must have _ncolumns items.
rows_vector _rows;
public:
table(const table_row::size_type);
widths_vector::size_type ncolumns(void) const;
widths_vector::value_type column_width(const widths_vector::size_type)
const;
const widths_vector& column_widths(void) const;
void add_row(const table_row&);
bool empty(void) const;
/// Constant iterator on the rows of the table.
typedef rows_vector::const_iterator const_iterator;
const_iterator begin(void) const;
const_iterator end(void) const;
};
/// Settings to format a table.
///
/// This class implements a builder pattern to construct an object that contains
/// all the knowledge to format a table. Once all the settings have been set,
/// the format() method provides the algorithm to apply such formatting settings
/// to any input table.
class table_formatter {
/// Text to use as the separator between cells.
std::string _separator;
/// Colletion of widths of the columns of a table.
std::size_t _table_width;
/// Widths of the table columns.
///
/// Note that this only includes widths for the column widths explicitly
/// overriden by the caller. In other words, this vector can be shorter
/// than the table passed to the format() method, which is just fine. Any
/// non-specified column widths are assumed to be width_auto.
widths_vector _column_widths;
public:
table_formatter(void);
static const std::size_t width_auto;
static const std::size_t width_refill;
table_formatter& set_column_width(const table_row::size_type,
const std::size_t);
table_formatter& set_separator(const char*);
table_formatter& set_table_width(const std::size_t);
std::vector< std::string > format(const table&) const;
};
} // namespace text
} // namespace utils
#endif // !defined(UTILS_TEXT_TABLE_HPP)