Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
* Package name : golang-github-intel-tfortools
Version : 0.2.0+git20180102.ec3334c-1
Upstream Author : Intel Corporation
* URL : https://github.com/intel/tfortools
* License : Apache-2.0
Programming Lang: Go
Description : template scripting support to go programs
Package tfortools provides a set of functions that are designed to make
it easier for developers to add template based scripting to their command
line tools.
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Command line tools written in Go often allow users to specify a template
script to tailor the output of the tool to their specific needs. This can
be useful both when visually inspecting the data and also when invoking
command line tools in scripts. The best example of this is go list which
allows users to pass a template script to extract interesting information
about Go packages. For example,
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go list -f '{{range .Imports}}{{println .}}{{end}}'
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prints all the imports of the current package.
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The aim of this package is to make it easier for developers to add
template scripting support to their tools and easier for users of
these tools to extract the information they need. It does this by
augmenting the templating language provided by the standard library
package text/template in two ways: • It auto generates descriptions of
the data structures passed as input to a template script for use in help
messages. This ensures that help usage information is always up to date
with the source code.• It provides a suite of convenience functions to
make it easy for script writers to extract the data they need. There are
functions for sorting, selecting rows and columns and generating nicely
formatted tables. For example, if a program passed a slice of structs
containing stock data to a template script, we could use the following
script to extract the names of the 3 stocks with the highest trade volume.
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{{table (cols (head (sort . "Volume" "dsc") 3) "Name" "Volume")}}
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The output might look something like this:
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Name Volume Happy Enterprises 6395624278 Big Company
7500000 Medium Company 300122
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The functions head, sort, tables and col are provided by this package.
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Dependency for #920385.
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