Table view for two dimensional data

[ashleydavis]

I like to implement a toString function for each my custom types, to be used to debug print the contents.

Does Mancy support, or are there any plans to support, implicit use of toString when outputting objects on the console?

[princejwesley]

@ashleydavis No plan for implicit toString output display. Current behaviour is consistent with chrome console output.

[ashleydavis]

Is there any way to customize the output for particular types/objects?

I noticed you can display graphs. Is there a way to make plugins for custom output?

[princejwesley]

@ashleydavis As of now, we don't have support for plugins. Do you want to see only the textual representation of custom object or the tree view as well?

[ashleydavis]

Have you seen IPython notebook and Pandas?

You can see it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEalbu8UGeo

Start watching at 9 minutes to see how it renders data frames and plots graphs.

I'm building data-forge which is a data transformation and analysis toolkit for JavaScript inspired by Pandas. I want data-forge to work with Mancy the way that Pandas works with IPython notebook.

So I want to be able to render a data frame as a table in Mancy. But if you add support for custom/plugin visualisers then I could implement this myself.

I might be able to find time to help out on Mancy if you need more people working on it.

[princejwesley]

@ashleydavis I'll either add support for customized output plugin or customize your data frames exclusively. I'll get back to you. 👍

[princejwesley]

@ashleydavis I don't think we need customizable output plugin. All we need is a way to represent 2D data as table. Its easy to deduce 2D form and show as table.

[ashleydavis]

Sounds good. I'm still working on making data-forge easy to use from Mancy. When it's further advanced I'll yet you know so you can try it out.