treeprint Per-instance settings

EdgeTypeLink, EdgeTypeMid, EdgeTypeEnd, and IndentSize are global variables.

Related: https://github.com/xlab/treeprint/issues/4

It is not comfortable when one applications depends multiple components which emits tree with different format. I believe it is better to have per-instance settings.

Nov 30 '24 05:11 apstndb

I agree but the lib is supposed to be simple. You can wrap the API into mutex and override those global variables with each call. Or, as I suggested there - https://github.com/xlab/treeprint/issues/2#issuecomment-324944141 - reformat the tree text in post.

Idea: you can set EdgeTypeLink, EdgeTypeMid, EdgeTypeEnd, and IndentSize to be placeholders for the future replacements. I suggest using template/text tags.

Jan 02 '25 09:01 xlab

FYI Finally, I have implemented it in my fork. It can be implemented as String() and Bytes() with options without modifing *Node more complex. https://github.com/apstndb/treeprint/pull/1

May 31 '25 12:05 apstndb

@apstndb thanks! I've mentioned the fork in the README in the best effort to provide options for people. https://github.com/xlab/treeprint/commit/eee4a4aa121a53c4e81b37cd2a185d2167c6686e

This version stays static ;)

Jun 18 '25 03:06 xlab