A PR to look over would be good. On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM Bear Giles <bgi...@coyotesong.com> wrote:
> I've been working on a contribution to maven-dependency-plugin and spent a > fair amount of time trying to figure out how to cleanly implement proper > indentation when converting the dependency tree to json, yaml, etc. > > After a bit of pain, okay a lot of pain, I have finally implemented a new > Directive - 'indent' - which extends Block and prepends a 'padding' value > on render(). This works since render() is also called recursively. > > (I know there's a TreeContext but I have no idea how to use it, whether it > can be used within the existing plugin, or even if it would help solve this > problem.) > > An example of how it is used is: > > #macro (writeNodeAsJson $node) > // do the json magic > #end > > #macro (walktree $node) > #indent > #writeNodeAsJson($node) > #foreach ($child in $node.children) > #walktree ($node) > #end > #end > #end > > (I don't have that code on this system so there may be a slight error in > it.) > > At the moment the directive doesn't take any parameter but I do plan to add > an optional one, ideally either a string literal or a reference, but I > haven't coded it yet. In theory it could even be a reference to a different > macro, e.g., so you could have 'I", "II",... then 'a','b'..., then > '1','2'... since the macro could be provided the current indentation depth > but I'll leave that for another day. > > I think I have JIRA access and if so I'll create an issue and submit a PR. > > Bear Giles >
