This is an auxillary library for TextTabulator that provides a way to expose data sources to TextTabulator.Tabulate method. This assembly should only need to be directly referenced by your project if you are implementing the TextTabulator.Adapters.ITabulatorAdapter yourself.
Common data formats already have implementions for TextTabulator.Adapters.ITabulatorAdapter:
Install the TextTabulator.Adapters Nuget package in your project.
nuget install JWelsch.TextTabulator.Adapters
How to Use
The main reason to use this assembly directly in your code is to provide an implementation for the ITabulatorAdapter interface. See the "Public API" section for more details.
Here is an example naive implementation that takes CSV data and adapts it for consumption by the Tabulator.Tabulate method:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using TextTabulator.Adapters;
public class EZCsvAdapter : ITabulatorAdapter
{
private readonly TextReader _reader;
private readonly bool _hasHeaderRow;
public EZCsvAdapter(TextReader reader, bool hasHeaderRow)
{
_reader = reader;
_hasHeaderRow = hasHeaderRow;
}
public IEnumerable<string>? GetHeaderStrings()
{
if (!_hasHeaderRow)
{
return null;
}
var line = _reader.ReadLine();
if (line == null)
{
return null;
}
return line.Split(',');
}
public IEnumerable<IEnumerable<string>> GetValueStrings()
{
var rows = new List<string[]>();
while (true)
{
var line = _reader.ReadLine();
if (line == null || line.Length == 0)
{
break;
}
rows.Add(line.Split(','));
}
return rows;
}
}
Here is an example of usage of the EZCsvAdapter class:
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using TextTabulator;
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var csvData =
@"Name,Weight (tons),Diet,Extinction
Tyrannosaurus Rex,6.7,Carnivore,66 mya
Triceratops,8,Herbivore,66 mya
Apatosaurus,33,Herbivore,147 mya
Archaeopteryx,0.001,Omnivore,147 mya
Anklyosaurus,4.8,Herbivore,66 mya
Stegosaurus,3.8,Herbivore,147 mya
Hadrosaurus,3,Herbivore,66 mya
";
using var stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(csvData));
using var reader = new StreamReader(stream);
var adapter = new EZCsvAdapter(reader, true);
var tabulator = new Tabulator();
var table = tabulator.Tabulate(adapter);
Console.WriteLine(table);
}
