const maxWidth = 70; // Nicely format an array of JSON objects as a Markdown table export function jsonToMDTable( jsonArray: any[], valueTransformer: (k: string, v: any) => string = (k, v) => "" + v, ): string { const fieldWidths = new Map(); for (let entry of jsonArray) { for (let k of Object.keys(entry)) { let fieldWidth = fieldWidths.get(k); if (!fieldWidth) { fieldWidth = valueTransformer(k, entry[k]).length; } else { fieldWidth = Math.max(valueTransformer(k, entry[k]).length, fieldWidth); } fieldWidths.set(k, fieldWidth); } } let fullWidth = 0; for (let v of fieldWidths.values()) { fullWidth += v + 1; } const headerList = [...fieldWidths.keys()]; const lines = []; lines.push( "|" + headerList .map( (headerName) => headerName + charPad(" ", fieldWidths.get(headerName)! - headerName.length), ) .join("|") + "|", ); lines.push( "|" + headerList .map((title) => charPad("-", fieldWidths.get(title)!)) .join("|") + "|", ); for (const val of jsonArray) { let el = []; for (let prop of headerList) { let s = valueTransformer(prop, val[prop]); el.push(s + charPad(" ", fieldWidths.get(prop)! - s.length)); } lines.push("|" + el.join("|") + "|"); } return lines.join("\n"); function charPad(ch: string, length: number) { if (fullWidth > maxWidth && ch === "") { return ""; } else if (fullWidth > maxWidth && ch === "-") { return "--"; } if (length < 1) { return ""; } return new Array(length + 1).join(ch); } }