Picnic Tables

A Kotlin DSL and Java/Kotlin builder API for constructing HTML-like tables which can be rendered to text.

Features:

Borders (with multiple styles)
Padding (left/right/top/bottom)
Per-table, row, and cell styling
Header/footer sections
Row/column spans
Text alignment

DSL:

table {
  row("Hello", "World")
  row("Hola", "Mundo")
}

HelloWorld
Hola Mundo

Very underwhelming! Picnic tables start completely unstyled by design.

Jump to a real-world example or continue reading for individual features.

(Note: these examples do not render correctly on mobile)

Border

table {
  cellStyle {
    // These options affect the style of all cells contained within the table.
    border = true
  }
  row("Hello", "World")
  row("Hola", "Mundo")
}

┌─────┬─────┐
│Hello│World│
├─────┼─────┤
│Hola │Mundo│
└─────┴─────┘

Table Border Style

table {
  style {
    // Unlike cellStyle, these options affect the style of the table itself.
    borderStyle = Hidden
  }
  cellStyle {
    border = true
  }
  row("Hello", "World")
  row("Hola", "Mundo")
}

Hello│World
─────┼─────
Hola │Mundo

Padding

table {
  cellStyle {
    border = true
    paddingLeft = 1
    paddingRight = 1
  }
  row("Hello", "World")
  row("Hola", "Mundo")
}

┌───────┬───────┐
│ Hello │ World │
├───────┼───────┤
│ Hola  │ Mundo │
└───────┴───────┘

Table, Row, and Cell Style

table {
  cellStyle {
    border = true
    paddingLeft = 1
    paddingRight = 1
  }
  row {
    cellStyle {
      // These options affect only the cells contained within this row and override table options.
      paddingTop = 1
    }
    cell("Hello")
    cell("World")
  }
  row {
    cell("Hola")
    cell("Mundo") {
       // These options affect only this specific cell and override row and table options.
       border = false
     }
  }
}

┌───────┬───────┐
│       │       │
│ Hello │ World │
├───────┼───────┘
│ Hola  │ Mundo  
└───────┘

Header and Footer

table {
  header {
    // Rows in a header always come first no matter when they're added.
    row("Hello", "Header")
  }
  footer {
    // Rows in a footer always come last no matter when they're added.
    row("Hello", "Footer")
  }
  row("Hello", "World")
  cellStyle {
    border = true
  }
}

┌─────┬──────┐
│Hello│Header│
├─────┼──────┤
│Hello│World │
├─────┼──────┤
│Hello│Footer│
└─────┴──────┘

Row and Column Span

table {
  cellStyle {
    border = true
  }
  row {
    cell("Hello") {
      rowSpan = 2
    }
    cell("World")
  }
  // This row has only one cell because "Hello" will carry over and push it to the right.
  row("Mars")

  // This row has only one cell because it spans two columns.
  row {
    cell("Hola Mundo") {
      columnSpan = 2
    }
  }
}

┌─────┬─────┐
│Hello│World│
│     ├─────┤
│     │Mars │
├─────┴─────┤
│Hola Mundo │
└───────────┘

Text Alignment

table {
  cellStyle {
    border = true
    alignment = TopCenter
  }
  row {
    cell("Hello") {
      rowSpan = 4
      alignment = MiddleLeft
    }
    cell("Mercury")
  }
  row("Venus")
  row("Earth")
  row("Mars")
  row {
    cell("Hola") {
      rowSpan = 4
      alignment = MiddleLeft
    }
    cell("Jupiter")
  }
  row("Saturn")
  row("Uranus")
  row("Neptune")
  row("Adios", "Pluto")
}

┌─────┬───────┐
│     │Mercury│
│     ├───────┤
│     │ Venus │
│Hello├───────┤
│     │ Earth │
│     ├───────┤
│     │ Mars  │
├─────┼───────┤
│     │Jupiter│
│     ├───────┤
│     │Saturn │
│Hola ├───────┤
│     │Uranus │
│     ├───────┤
│     │Neptune│
├─────┼───────┤
│Adios│ Pluto │
└─────┴───────┘

Real-world Example

Here is a more advanced, real-world example from the Diffuse tool. It features row and column spans, headers and footers, borders, table border style, padding, and text alignment.

table {
  style {
    borderStyle = Hidden
  }
  cellStyle {
    alignment = MiddleRight
    paddingLeft = 1
    paddingRight = 1
    borderLeft = true
    borderRight = true
  }
  header {
    cellStyle {
      border = true
      alignment = BottomLeft
    }
    row {
      cell("APK") {
        rowSpan = 2
      }
      cell("compressed") {
        alignment = BottomCenter
        columnSpan = 3
      }
      cell("uncompressed") {
        alignment = BottomCenter
        columnSpan = 3
      }
    }
    row("old", "new", "diff", "old", "new", "diff")
  }
  body {
    row("dex", "664.8 KiB", "664.8 Kib", "-25 B", "1.5 MiB", "1.5 MiB", "-112 B")
    // "arsc", "manifest", etc…
  }
  footer {
    cellStyle {
      border = true
    }
    row("total", "1.3 MiB", "1.3 MiB", "-39 B", "2.2 MiB", "2.2 MiB", "-112 B")
  }
}

          │          compressed           │          uncompressed
          ├───────────┬───────────┬───────┼───────────┬───────────┬────────
 APK      │ old       │ new       │ diff  │ old       │ new       │ diff
──────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┼───────────┼───────────┼────────
      dex │ 664.8 KiB │ 664.8 KiB │ -25 B │   1.5 MiB │   1.5 MiB │ -112 B
     arsc │ 201.7 KiB │ 201.7 KiB │   0 B │ 201.6 KiB │ 201.6 KiB │    0 B
 manifest │   1.4 KiB │   1.4 KiB │   0 B │   4.2 KiB │   4.2 KiB │    0 B
      res │ 418.2 KiB │ 418.2 KiB │ -14 B │ 488.3 KiB │ 488.3 KiB │    0 B
    asset │       0 B │       0 B │   0 B │       0 B │       0 B │    0 B
    other │  37.1 KiB │  37.1 KiB │   0 B │  36.3 KiB │  36.3 KiB │    0 B
──────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┼───────────┼───────────┼────────
    total │   1.3 MiB │   1.3 MiB │ -39 B │   2.2 MiB │   2.2 MiB │ -112 B

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repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
  implementation 'com.jakewharton.picnic:picnic:0.6.0'
}

Snapshots of the development version are available in Sonatype's snapshots repository.

repositories {
  maven {
    url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/'
  }
}
dependencies {
  implementation 'com.jakewharton.picnic:picnic:0.7.0-SNAPSHOT'
}

License

Copyright 2015 Jake Wharton

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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