Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Printing nested objects should be similar to printing JSON #1257

Closed
WhiteBlackGoose opened this issue Apr 16, 2021 · 2 comments
Closed

Printing nested objects should be similar to printing JSON #1257

WhiteBlackGoose opened this issue Apr 16, 2021 · 2 comments
Labels
Area-Formatting Data and object formatting as HTML and plaintext enhancement New feature or request Impact-Medium

Comments

@WhiteBlackGoose
Copy link
Contributor

That's what we have for nested dictionaries now.
image

Imho it should have a tree format, not a table. Similar to #1233.

@jonsequitur jonsequitur added Area-Formatting Data and object formatting as HTML and plaintext enhancement New feature or request labels Apr 16, 2021
@jonsequitur jonsequitur added this to the 1.0 milestone Nov 9, 2021
@jonsequitur jonsequitur changed the title Printing nested dictionaries should be similar to printing JSON Printing nested objects should be similar to printing JSON Aug 3, 2022
@jonsequitur
Copy link
Contributor

Simple, common objects are also very hard to read when rendered using the nested plain text formatter:

image

@jonsequitur
Copy link
Contributor

Changes to the plain text format (merged) and styling (in PR #2610) yields the following, which is an improvement. But we're still planning to do the expanding treeview-style view soon.

image

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
Area-Formatting Data and object formatting as HTML and plaintext enhancement New feature or request Impact-Medium
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants