paulczy / dumpify

Adding `.Dump()` extension methods to Console Applications, similar to LinqPad's.

Dumpify

This library is under development and is not recommended in Production payloads

Improve productivity and debuggability by adding .Dump() extension methods to Console Applications, similar to LinqPad's.

One of my favorites LinqPad feature is its .Dump() extension methods and how customizable they are. It was always hard to return to Visual Studio or any Console Application and find out this feature doesn't exist there.

Features

• Dump any object to Console
• Support for Arrays and IEnumerables
• Support for Custom descriptors
• Support for max nesting levels
• Support for circular dependencies and references
• Support for styling and customizations
• Configurable
• Spectre.Console renderers
• Special Handling for types:
  • Arrays, IEnumerables, Collections.
  • StringBuilder
  • System.Reflection types

How to Install

Either run dotnet add package Dumpify or Install-Package Dumpify

Examples:

new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }.Dump();

Support nesting as well

var moaid = new Person { FirstName = "Moaid", LastName = "Hathot" };
var haneeni = new Person { FirstName = "Haneeni", LastName = "Shibli" };

moaid.Spouse = haneeni;
haneeni.Spouse = moaid;

moaid.Dump();

Support for special types like arrays and Dictionaries

var arr = new[] { 1, 2, 3, 4 }.Dump();

var arr2d = new int[,] { {1, 2}, {3, 4} }.Dump();

new Dictionary<string, string>
{
   ["Moaid"] = "Hathot",
   ["Haneeni"] = "Shibli",
   ["Eren"] = "Yeager",
   ["Mikasa"] = "Ackerman",
}.Dump();

Features for the future 0.5.0 release

• Simple text renderer
• Consider disabling wrapping of Table titles
• re-introduce labels
• Consier adding "" to string values.

Features for the future 0.6.0 release

• Better styling of Custom values
  • Typeof(T) for example, Generic types, etc.
• Better rendering of Delegates

To do

• Custom Outputs
• Live outputs
• Improve Cache By decoupling the PropertyInfo from the Descriptors.
• Rethink Generators caching keys
• Consider using Max Depth for Descriptors
• Refactor Renderers and make it better extendable
• Add more renderers
  • re-introduce Json Renderers
  • JavaScript's console.log style
  • CSharp Renderer
• Decouple from Spectre.Console
• Tests
  • More tests
  • Visual (Render) Tests - consider acceptance tests
  • Tests for Nesting
• Add support for include fields
• Add support for include private members
• Cache Spectre.Console styles and colors
• More sync between Custom Descriptors and Custom Renderers
  • Think how we can mark type's descriptor as needing special rendering.
  • The current CustomDescriptorGenerator must generate a value
  • Consider ValueTuple
• Refactor SpectureTableRenderer to share customization code
• Consider changing the style/view of ObjectDescriptors without properties (currently empty table)

Disclaimer

This project is inspired by LinqPad's Dump features, authored by Joseph Albahari.