aq show network: misaligned columns about aquilon

[jrha]

It would be good to use a tabulation library to render the output, I believe @msmark also demonstrated a wrapper (https://github.com/quattor/aquilon-tools/blob/master/src/bin/aqnet ?) at the Autumn workshop.

[jrha]

Also column -t does a good job (apart from the comments column).

aq show_network --all | column -t

[urbonegi]

So the raw formater output does misalign the Network output intentionally (Network name has 0 indentation, then its details have 2 spaces indentation, building details are indented by 4 spaces, then if there would be any static routes, their personality details would be indented by 6 spaces):

Network: very-long-network-name-which-is-ok-cause-it-can-use-all-the-screen-width
  Network Environment: internal
  IP: 127.0.0.1
  Netmask: 255.255.224.0
  Sysloc: xx.xx.xy
  Building: xx
    Fullname: XX
    Address: Planet Earth
    Location Parents: [Organization quattor, Hub xx, Continent xx, Country xx, Campus xx, City xx]
  Side: a
  Network Type: unknown

Could you should an example of wrong alignment, cause I do not see what is wrong here. If you are trying to script around Aquilon broker, you should either use protobuf or csv output format, not raw output.

[jrha]

@urbonegi This looks like the details for a single network, the problem was when printing all networks.

[jrha]

Aha! @gombasg removed the tabular network list functionality in fd08fd7 as part of the IPv6 support.