goeran/expandable

Simple tool for converting tabular string data to objects.

expandable's Issues

Macro support for tables

Consider this,

            var malForBilag = BilagMal(@"
                    Bilagsnr  | Kontonr | Dato           | Debit | Kredit | PrimærKontoNr    | Beskrivelse
                    @bilagNr  | 1920    | @datoEndring   | 0     | 3000   | 2930             | Utbetaling lønn/bonus
                    @bilagNr  | 2780    | @agaTermin     | 423   | 0      | 1950             | Utbetaling av aga
                    @bilagNr  | 1950    | @agaTermin     | 0     | 423    | 2780             | Utbetaling av aga
            ", new {
                bilagNr = prognoseRegnskap.NesteBilagsnummer(),
                datoEndring = primærtrans.Dato,
                agaTermin = regnskapskalender.NærmesteDatoForForskuddstrekkOgArbeidsgiveravgift(primærtrans.Dato)
            });

Is illustrated, it would be nice to be able to inject values into the table based on variables or expression evals in code.

Setting column values are properties on objects is case sensitive

Had a class like this,

public class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Age { get; set; }
}

And a table like this,

name       | Age
Steve      | 50
Bill       | 50

When parsing the table it was not able to set the Name property on the Person objects. I spent at least 5 minutes debugging before I understood what was wrong.

I should consider implementing a strict mode, were parsing fails when properties not found.

Support groupings

Like

accounts:
number | name
1000   | A
1001   | B

transactions:
date       | debit | credit
1.1.2013   | 100   | 0
1.2.2013   | 40    |

Give the project a cooler name

Personally I like ASCII Table and Pretty Table (inspired by the Python library: https://code.google.com/p/prettytable/).