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.

paulczy/Dumpify