Source file src/pkg/text/tabwriter/tabwriter.go
1 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
4
5 // Package tabwriter implements a write filter (tabwriter.Writer) that
6 // translates tabbed columns in input into properly aligned text.
7 //
8 // The package is using the Elastic Tabstops algorithm described at
9 // http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/index.html.
10 //
11 package tabwriter
12
13 import (
14 "bytes"
15 "io"
16 "unicode/utf8"
17 )
18
19 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
20 // Filter implementation
21
22 // A cell represents a segment of text terminated by tabs or line breaks.
23 // The text itself is stored in a separate buffer; cell only describes the
24 // segment's size in bytes, its width in runes, and whether it's an htab
25 // ('\t') terminated cell.
26 //
27 type cell struct {
28 size int // cell size in bytes
29 width int // cell width in runes
30 htab bool // true if the cell is terminated by an htab ('\t')
31 }
32
33 // A Writer is a filter that inserts padding around tab-delimited
34 // columns in its input to align them in the output.
35 //
36 // The Writer treats incoming bytes as UTF-8 encoded text consisting
37 // of cells terminated by (horizontal or vertical) tabs or line
38 // breaks (newline or formfeed characters). Cells in adjacent lines
39 // constitute a column. The Writer inserts padding as needed to
40 // make all cells in a column have the same width, effectively
41 // aligning the columns. It assumes that all characters have the
42 // same width except for tabs for which a tabwidth must be specified.
43 // Note that cells are tab-terminated, not tab-separated: trailing
44 // non-tab text at the end of a line does not form a column cell.
45 //
46 // The Writer assumes that all Unicode code points have the same width;
47 // this may not be true in some fonts.
48 //
49 // If DiscardEmptyColumns is set, empty columns that are terminated
50 // entirely by vertical (or "soft") tabs are discarded. Columns
51 // terminated by horizontal (or "hard") tabs are not affected by
52 // this flag.
53 //
54 // If a Writer is configured to filter HTML, HTML tags and entities
55 // are passed through. The widths of tags and entities are
56 // assumed to be zero (tags) and one (entities) for formatting purposes.
57 //
58 // A segment of text may be escaped by bracketing it with Escape
59 // characters. The tabwriter passes escaped text segments through
60 // unchanged. In particular, it does not interpret any tabs or line
61 // breaks within the segment. If the StripEscape flag is set, the
62 // Escape characters are stripped from the output; otherwise they
63 // are passed through as well. For the purpose of formatting, the
64 // width of the escaped text is always computed excluding the Escape
65 // characters.
66 //
67 // The formfeed character ('\f') acts like a newline but it also
68 // terminates all columns in the current line (effectively calling
69 // Flush). Cells in the next line start new columns. Unless found
70 // inside an HTML tag or inside an escaped text segment, formfeed
71 // characters appear as newlines in the output.
72 //
73 // The Writer must buffer input internally, because proper spacing
74 // of one line may depend on the cells in future lines. Clients must
75 // call Flush when done calling Write.
76 //
77 type Writer struct {
78 // configuration
79 output io.Writer
80 minwidth int
81 tabwidth int
82 padding int
83 padbytes [8]byte
84 flags uint
85
86 // current state
87 buf bytes.Buffer // collected text excluding tabs or line breaks
88 pos int // buffer position up to which cell.width of incomplete cell has been computed
89 cell cell // current incomplete cell; cell.width is up to buf[pos] excluding ignored sections
90 endChar byte // terminating char of escaped sequence (Escape for escapes, '>', ';' for HTML tags/entities, or 0)
91 lines [][]cell // list of lines; each line is a list of cells
92 widths []int // list of column widths in runes - re-used during formatting
93 }
94
95 func (b *Writer) addLine() { b.lines = append(b.lines, []cell{}) }
96
97 // Reset the current state.
98 func (b *Writer) reset() {
99 b.buf.Reset()
100 b.pos = 0
101 b.cell = cell{}
102 b.endChar = 0
103 b.lines = b.lines[0:0]
104 b.widths = b.widths[0:0]
105 b.addLine()
106 }
107
108 // Internal representation (current state):
109 //
110 // - all text written is appended to buf; tabs and line breaks are stripped away
111 // - at any given time there is a (possibly empty) incomplete cell at the end
112 // (the cell starts after a tab or line break)
113 // - cell.size is the number of bytes belonging to the cell so far
114 // - cell.width is text width in runes of that cell from the start of the cell to
115 // position pos; html tags and entities are excluded from this width if html
116 // filtering is enabled
117 // - the sizes and widths of processed text are kept in the lines list
118 // which contains a list of cells for each line
119 // - the widths list is a temporary list with current widths used during
120 // formatting; it is kept in Writer because it's re-used
121 //
122 // |<---------- size ---------->|
123 // | |
124 // |<- width ->|<- ignored ->| |
125 // | | | |
126 // [---processed---tab------------<tag>...</tag>...]
127 // ^ ^ ^
128 // | | |
129 // buf start of incomplete cell pos
130
131 // Formatting can be controlled with these flags.
132 const (
133 // Ignore html tags and treat entities (starting with '&'
134 // and ending in ';') as single characters (width = 1).
135 FilterHTML uint = 1 << iota
136
137 // Strip Escape characters bracketing escaped text segments
138 // instead of passing them through unchanged with the text.
139 StripEscape
140
141 // Force right-alignment of cell content.
142 // Default is left-alignment.
143 AlignRight
144
145 // Handle empty columns as if they were not present in
146 // the input in the first place.
147 DiscardEmptyColumns
148
149 // Always use tabs for indentation columns (i.e., padding of
150 // leading empty cells on the left) independent of padchar.
151 TabIndent
152
153 // Print a vertical bar ('|') between columns (after formatting).
154 // Discarded columns appear as zero-width columns ("||").
155 Debug
156 )
157
158 // A Writer must be initialized with a call to Init. The first parameter (output)
159 // specifies the filter output. The remaining parameters control the formatting:
160 //
161 // minwidth minimal cell width including any padding
162 // tabwidth width of tab characters (equivalent number of spaces)
163 // padding padding added to a cell before computing its width
164 // padchar ASCII char used for padding
165 // if padchar == '\t', the Writer will assume that the
166 // width of a '\t' in the formatted output is tabwidth,
167 // and cells are left-aligned independent of align_left
168 // (for correct-looking results, tabwidth must correspond
169 // to the tab width in the viewer displaying the result)
170 // flags formatting control
171 //
172 func (b *Writer) Init(output io.Writer, minwidth, tabwidth, padding int, padchar byte, flags uint) *Writer {
173 if minwidth < 0 || tabwidth < 0 || padding < 0 {
174 panic("negative minwidth, tabwidth, or padding")
175 }
176 b.output = output
177 b.minwidth = minwidth
178 b.tabwidth = tabwidth
179 b.padding = padding
180 for i := range b.padbytes {
181 b.padbytes[i] = padchar
182 }
183 if padchar == '\t' {
184 // tab padding enforces left-alignment
185 flags &^= AlignRight
186 }
187 b.flags = flags
188
189 b.reset()
190
191 return b
192 }
193
194 // debugging support (keep code around)
195 func (b *Writer) dump() {
196 pos := 0
197 for i, line := range b.lines {
198 print("(", i, ") ")
199 for _, c := range line {
200 print("[", string(b.buf.Bytes()[pos:pos+c.size]), "]")
201 pos += c.size
202 }
203 print("\n")
204 }
205 print("\n")
206 }
207
208 // local error wrapper so we can distinguish errors we want to return
209 // as errors from genuine panics (which we don't want to return as errors)
210 type osError struct {
211 err error
212 }
213
214 func (b *Writer) write0(buf []byte) {
215 n, err := b.output.Write(buf)
216 if n != len(buf) && err == nil {
217 err = io.ErrShortWrite
218 }
219 if err != nil {
220 panic(osError{err})
221 }
222 }
223
224 func (b *Writer) writeN(src []byte, n int) {
225 for n > len(src) {
226 b.write0(src)
227 n -= len(src)
228 }
229 b.write0(src[0:n])
230 }
231
232 var (
233 newline = []byte{'\n'}
234 tabs = []byte("\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t")
235 )
236
237 func (b *Writer) writePadding(textw, cellw int, useTabs bool) {
238 if b.padbytes[0] == '\t' || useTabs {
239 // padding is done with tabs
240 if b.tabwidth == 0 {
241 return // tabs have no width - can't do any padding
242 }
243 // make cellw the smallest multiple of b.tabwidth
244 cellw = (cellw + b.tabwidth - 1) / b.tabwidth * b.tabwidth
245 n := cellw - textw // amount of padding
246 if n < 0 {
247 panic("internal error")
248 }
249 b.writeN(tabs, (n+b.tabwidth-1)/b.tabwidth)
250 return
251 }
252
253 // padding is done with non-tab characters
254 b.writeN(b.padbytes[0:], cellw-textw)
255 }
256
257 var vbar = []byte{'|'}
258
259 func (b *Writer) writeLines(pos0 int, line0, line1 int) (pos int) {
260 pos = pos0
261 for i := line0; i < line1; i++ {
262 line := b.lines[i]
263
264 // if TabIndent is set, use tabs to pad leading empty cells
265 useTabs := b.flags&TabIndent != 0
266
267 for j, c := range line {
268 if j > 0 && b.flags&Debug != 0 {
269 // indicate column break
270 b.write0(vbar)
271 }
272
273 if c.size == 0 {
274 // empty cell
275 if j < len(b.widths) {
276 b.writePadding(c.width, b.widths[j], useTabs)
277 }
278 } else {
279 // non-empty cell
280 useTabs = false
281 if b.flags&AlignRight == 0 { // align left
282 b.write0(b.buf.Bytes()[pos : pos+c.size])
283 pos += c.size
284 if j < len(b.widths) {
285 b.writePadding(c.width, b.widths[j], false)
286 }
287 } else { // align right
288 if j < len(b.widths) {
289 b.writePadding(c.width, b.widths[j], false)
290 }
291 b.write0(b.buf.Bytes()[pos : pos+c.size])
292 pos += c.size
293 }
294 }
295 }
296
297 if i+1 == len(b.lines) {
298 // last buffered line - we don't have a newline, so just write
299 // any outstanding buffered data
300 b.write0(b.buf.Bytes()[pos : pos+b.cell.size])
301 pos += b.cell.size
302 } else {
303 // not the last line - write newline
304 b.write0(newline)
305 }
306 }
307 return
308 }
309
310 // Format the text between line0 and line1 (excluding line1); pos
311 // is the buffer position corresponding to the beginning of line0.
312 // Returns the buffer position corresponding to the beginning of
313 // line1 and an error, if any.
314 //
315 func (b *Writer) format(pos0 int, line0, line1 int) (pos int) {
316 pos = pos0
317 column := len(b.widths)
318 for this := line0; this < line1; this++ {
319 line := b.lines[this]
320
321 if column < len(line)-1 {
322 // cell exists in this column => this line
323 // has more cells than the previous line
324 // (the last cell per line is ignored because cells are
325 // tab-terminated; the last cell per line describes the
326 // text before the newline/formfeed and does not belong
327 // to a column)
328
329 // print unprinted lines until beginning of block
330 pos = b.writeLines(pos, line0, this)
331 line0 = this
332
333 // column block begin
334 width := b.minwidth // minimal column width
335 discardable := true // true if all cells in this column are empty and "soft"
336 for ; this < line1; this++ {
337 line = b.lines[this]
338 if column < len(line)-1 {
339 // cell exists in this column
340 c := line[column]
341 // update width
342 if w := c.width + b.padding; w > width {
343 width = w
344 }
345 // update discardable
346 if c.width > 0 || c.htab {
347 discardable = false
348 }
349 } else {
350 break
351 }
352 }
353 // column block end
354
355 // discard empty columns if necessary
356 if discardable && b.flags&DiscardEmptyColumns != 0 {
357 width = 0
358 }
359
360 // format and print all columns to the right of this column
361 // (we know the widths of this column and all columns to the left)
362 b.widths = append(b.widths, width) // push width
363 pos = b.format(pos, line0, this)
364 b.widths = b.widths[0 : len(b.widths)-1] // pop width
365 line0 = this
366 }
367 }
368
369 // print unprinted lines until end
370 return b.writeLines(pos, line0, line1)
371 }
372
373 // Append text to current cell.
374 func (b *Writer) append(text []byte) {
375 b.buf.Write(text)
376 b.cell.size += len(text)
377 }
378
379 // Update the cell width.
380 func (b *Writer) updateWidth() {
381 b.cell.width += utf8.RuneCount(b.buf.Bytes()[b.pos:b.buf.Len()])
382 b.pos = b.buf.Len()
383 }
384
385 // To escape a text segment, bracket it with Escape characters.
386 // For instance, the tab in this string "Ignore this tab: \xff\t\xff"
387 // does not terminate a cell and constitutes a single character of
388 // width one for formatting purposes.
389 //
390 // The value 0xff was chosen because it cannot appear in a valid UTF-8 sequence.
391 //
392 const Escape = '\xff'
393
394 // Start escaped mode.
395 func (b *Writer) startEscape(ch byte) {
396 switch ch {
397 case Escape:
398 b.endChar = Escape
399 case '<':
400 b.endChar = '>'
401 case '&':
402 b.endChar = ';'
403 }
404 }
405
406 // Terminate escaped mode. If the escaped text was an HTML tag, its width
407 // is assumed to be zero for formatting purposes; if it was an HTML entity,
408 // its width is assumed to be one. In all other cases, the width is the
409 // unicode width of the text.
410 //
411 func (b *Writer) endEscape() {
412 switch b.endChar {
413 case Escape:
414 b.updateWidth()
415 if b.flags&StripEscape == 0 {
416 b.cell.width -= 2 // don't count the Escape chars
417 }
418 case '>': // tag of zero width
419 case ';':
420 b.cell.width++ // entity, count as one rune
421 }
422 b.pos = b.buf.Len()
423 b.endChar = 0
424 }
425
426 // Terminate the current cell by adding it to the list of cells of the
427 // current line. Returns the number of cells in that line.
428 //
429 func (b *Writer) terminateCell(htab bool) int {
430 b.cell.htab = htab
431 line := &b.lines[len(b.lines)-1]
432 *line = append(*line, b.cell)
433 b.cell = cell{}
434 return len(*line)
435 }
436
437 func handlePanic(err *error) {
438 if e := recover(); e != nil {
439 *err = e.(osError).err // re-panics if it's not a local osError
440 }
441 }
442
443 // Flush should be called after the last call to Write to ensure
444 // that any data buffered in the Writer is written to output. Any
445 // incomplete escape sequence at the end is considered
446 // complete for formatting purposes.
447 //
448 func (b *Writer) Flush() (err error) {
449 defer b.reset() // even in the presence of errors
450 defer handlePanic(&err)
451
452 // add current cell if not empty
453 if b.cell.size > 0 {
454 if b.endChar != 0 {
455 // inside escape - terminate it even if incomplete
456 b.endEscape()
457 }
458 b.terminateCell(false)
459 }
460
461 // format contents of buffer
462 b.format(0, 0, len(b.lines))
463
464 return
465 }
466
467 var hbar = []byte("---\n")
468
469 // Write writes buf to the writer b.
470 // The only errors returned are ones encountered
471 // while writing to the underlying output stream.
472 //
473 func (b *Writer) Write(buf []byte) (n int, err error) {
474 defer handlePanic(&err)
475
476 // split text into cells
477 n = 0
478 for i, ch := range buf {
479 if b.endChar == 0 {
480 // outside escape
481 switch ch {
482 case '\t', '\v', '\n', '\f':
483 // end of cell
484 b.append(buf[n:i])
485 b.updateWidth()
486 n = i + 1 // ch consumed
487 ncells := b.terminateCell(ch == '\t')
488 if ch == '\n' || ch == '\f' {
489 // terminate line
490 b.addLine()
491 if ch == '\f' || ncells == 1 {
492 // A '\f' always forces a flush. Otherwise, if the previous
493 // line has only one cell which does not have an impact on
494 // the formatting of the following lines (the last cell per
495 // line is ignored by format()), thus we can flush the
496 // Writer contents.
497 if err = b.Flush(); err != nil {
498 return
499 }
500 if ch == '\f' && b.flags&Debug != 0 {
501 // indicate section break
502 b.write0(hbar)
503 }
504 }
505 }
506
507 case Escape:
508 // start of escaped sequence
509 b.append(buf[n:i])
510 b.updateWidth()
511 n = i
512 if b.flags&StripEscape != 0 {
513 n++ // strip Escape
514 }
515 b.startEscape(Escape)
516
517 case '<', '&':
518 // possibly an html tag/entity
519 if b.flags&FilterHTML != 0 {
520 // begin of tag/entity
521 b.append(buf[n:i])
522 b.updateWidth()
523 n = i
524 b.startEscape(ch)
525 }
526 }
527
528 } else {
529 // inside escape
530 if ch == b.endChar {
531 // end of tag/entity
532 j := i + 1
533 if ch == Escape && b.flags&StripEscape != 0 {
534 j = i // strip Escape
535 }
536 b.append(buf[n:j])
537 n = i + 1 // ch consumed
538 b.endEscape()
539 }
540 }
541 }
542
543 // append leftover text
544 b.append(buf[n:])
545 n = len(buf)
546 return
547 }
548
549 // NewWriter allocates and initializes a new tabwriter.Writer.
550 // The parameters are the same as for the the Init function.
551 //
552 func NewWriter(output io.Writer, minwidth, tabwidth, padding int, padchar byte, flags uint) *Writer {
553 return new(Writer).Init(output, minwidth, tabwidth, padding, padchar, flags)
554 }