table to visual

[okdistribute]

I wrote this thing to convert a couple daff tables to a visual for convenience. How do you feel about putting it somewhere in daff core (or maybe extend it even to a version that is smart about 3-table diffs, too).

If not, I'll open an npm module for it

https://github.com/karissa/dat-visualdiff/blob/master/lib/dat2daff.js#L33

function tablesToVisual (tables, opts) {
  var flags = new daff.CompareFlags();

  var table1 = tables[0]
  var table2 = tables[1]

  var alignment = daff.compareTables(table1, table2, flags).align();
  var highlighter = new daff.TableDiff(alignment,flags);
  var table_diff = new daff.SimpleTable();
  highlighter.hilite(table_diff);

  if (opts.html) {
    var diff2html = new daff.DiffRender();
    diff2html.render(table_diff);
    var table_diff_html = diff2html.html();
    return table_diff_html
  }
  else {
    var diff2terminal = new daff.TerminalDiffRender();
    return diff2terminal.render(table_diff)
  }
}

[paulfitz]

I'm definitely +1 on adding a helper that does this in core. Even I have a hard time remembering all the hoops to jump through to make a diff...

[okdistribute]

Hehe ok! cool

[paulfitz]

this became #26 which was merged as 3bc4310 and a4e1d2b, in daff 1.2.13. Thanks @Karissa.