Rewrite headers to desired output about formatador HOT 5 CLOSED

Could you provide a short example script with some fake data of what the data looks like, what command (roughly) you'd like to run and what output you hope to see? I think that will just help clarify that we are on the same page before I dig too deep down a blind alley.

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Sure!

Example response from the third party.

→ http https://api.example.com/ssh_users.json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 112
Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:28:29 GMT
Server: nginx
Status: 200 OK
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Rate-Limit-Limit: 360
X-Rate-Limit-Remaining: 359
X-Rate-Limit-Reset: 1389038400

[
    {
        "id": "11744", 
        "nickname": "[email protected]"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "23228", 
        "nickname": "[email protected]"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "23229", 
        "nickname": "[email protected]"
    }
]

In terms of the command, I am not 100% sure where it would best fit - maybe an extra hash of actual fields => rewritten output field? E.g. Formatador.display_table(table_data, [:id, :nickname => "username"]).

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Hmm. Trying to think how to make this easier. Perhaps you can just do something like:

response = JSON.parse(Excon.get('https://api.example.com/ssh_users.json').body)
data = Hash.new do |hash, key|
  case key
  when 'username'
    hash['nickname']
  else
    nil
  end
end
data.merge!(response)
Formatador.display_table(data)

Just wanted to offer some kind of fix that involved less iterating for you, since I too am unsure where one might best fit in those extra fields.

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The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that this requirement should be outside of the scope of Formatador as it isn't anything to do with the outputting of the table, it is altering the data that is returned which is the issue here.

If you don't have anything further to add I am happy to close this off and leave it as is.

Thanks for the replies though!

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@jacobbednarz - alright. I certainly see how something like this could be helpful, but there are also points for keeping the table stuff simple. So, yeah, lets just leave it for now. Thanks for the feedback and discussion!

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