CommandBox has a helper for printing ASCII Art tables in your custom commands and task runners called print.table(). We've taken this a step further and wrapped the table printer utility in a new command so you can use it from the CLI directly. The printTable command will accept ANY data in as JSON and it will marshal it into a query for you. This means it can be a query, an array of structs, an array or arrays, and more. You can now get quick and easy visualization of any data right from the CLI or in builds.
Parameters
data - JSON serialized query, array of structs, or array of arrays to represent in table form
includeHeaders - A list of headers to include.
headerNames - A list/array of column headers to use instead of the default specifically for array of arrays
debug - Only print out the names of the columns and the first row values
When using an array of arrays and not specifying headerNames, the columns will be named col_1, col_2, col_3, etc...
# Query object
#extensionlist | printTable name,version
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╤═══════════════════╗
║ name │ version ║
╠═════════════════════════════════════════╪═══════════════════╣
║ MySQL │ 8.0.19 ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ Microsoft SQL Server │ 6.5.4 ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ PostgreSQL │ 9.4.1212 ║
╟─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ Ajax Extension │ 1.0.0.3 ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╧═══════════════════╝
# JSON list of all servers
server list --json | printTable name,host,port,status
╔══════════════════════════════╤═════════════════════════════╤═══════╤══════════╗
║ name │ host │ port │ status ║
╠══════════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════════╪═══════╪══════════╣
║ servicetest │ 127.0.0.1 │ 54427 │ stopped ║
╟──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────╢
║ servicetest2 │ 127.0.0.1 │ 52919 │ stopped ║
╟──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────┼──────────╢
║ FRDemos │ 127.0.0.1 │ 50458 │ stopped ║
╚══════════════════════════════╧═════════════════════════════╧═══════╧══════════╝
Terminal Width
If you are running inside a build server, the terminal width will use a default setting, which may be smaller than you wish. Terminal width can be overridden for entire CLI