--[[ pretty formatting and printing for nested data structures also able to be parsed by lua in many cases, but not always circular references and depth limit will cause the string to contain things that cannot be parsed. this isn't a full serialisation solution, it's for debugging and display to humans all exposed functions take a config table, defaults found in pretty.default_config per_line how many fields to print per line indent indentation to use for each line, or "" for single-line packed can be a number of spaces, boolean, or a string to use verbatim depth a limit on how deep to explore the table ]] local path = (...):gsub("pretty", "") local table = require(path.."tablex") --shadow global table module local pretty = {} pretty.default_config = { per_line = 1, depth = math.huge, indent = true, } --indentation to use when `indent = true` is provided pretty.default_indent = "\t" --pretty-print something directly function pretty.print(input, config) print(pretty.string(input, config)) end --pretty-format something into a string function pretty.string(input, config) return pretty._process(input, config) end --internal --actual processing part function pretty._process(input, config, processing_state) --if the input is not a table, or it has a tostring metamethod --then we can just use tostring directly local mt = getmetatable(input) if type(input) ~= "table" or mt and mt.__tostring then local s = tostring(input) --quote strings if type(input) == "string" then s = '"' .. s .. '"' end return s end --pull out config config = table.overlay(pretty.default_config, config or {}) local per_line = config.per_line local depth = config.depth local indent = config.indent if type(indent) == "number" then indent = (" "):rep(indent) elseif type(indent) == "boolean" then indent = indent and pretty.default_indent or "" end --dependent vars local newline = indent == "" and "" or "\n" --init or collect processing state processing_state = processing_state or { circular_references = {i = 1}, depth = 0, } processing_state.depth = processing_state.depth + 1 if processing_state.depth > depth then return "{...}" end local circular_references = processing_state.circular_references local ref = circular_references[input] if ref then if not ref.string then ref.string = string.format("%%%d", circular_references.i) circular_references.i = circular_references.i + 1 end return ref.string end ref = {} circular_references[input] = ref local function internal_value(v) v = pretty._process(v, config, processing_state) if indent ~= "" then v = v:gsub(newline, newline..indent) end return v end --otherwise, we'll build up a table representation of our data --collate into member chunks local chunks = {} --(tracking for already-seen elements from ipairs) local seen = {} --sequential part first --(in practice, pairs already does this, but the order isn't guaranteed) for i, v in ipairs(input) do seen[i] = true table.insert(chunks, internal_value(v)) end --non sequential follows for k, v in pairs(input) do if not seen[k] then --encapsulate anything that's not a string --todo: also keywords and strings with spaces if type(k) ~= "string" then k = "[" .. tostring(k) .. "]" end table.insert(chunks, k .. " = " .. internal_value(v)) end end --resolve number to newline skip after if per_line > 1 then local line_chunks = {} while #chunks > 0 do local break_next = false local line = {} for i = 1, per_line do if #chunks == 0 then break end local v = chunks[1] --tables split to own line if v:find("{") then --break line here break_next = true break else table.insert(line, table.remove(chunks, 1)) end end if #line > 0 then table.insert(line_chunks, table.concat(line, ", ")) end if break_next then table.insert(line_chunks, table.remove(chunks, 1)) break_next = false end end chunks = line_chunks end --drop depth processing_state.depth = processing_state.depth - 1 local multiline = #chunks > 1 local separator = (indent == "" or not multiline) and ", " or ",\n"..indent local prelude = ref.string and (string.format(" ",ref.string)) or "" if multiline then return "{" .. prelude .. newline .. indent .. table.concat(chunks, separator) .. newline .. "}" end return "{" .. prelude .. table.concat(chunks, separator) .. "}" end return pretty