nushell/crates/nu-command/src/strings
alex-tdrn 69e4790b00
Skip decoration lines for detect columns --guess (#13274)
# Description
I introduced a regression in #13272 that resulted in `detect columns
--guess` to panic whenever it had to handle empty, whitespace-only, or
non-whitespace-only lines that go all the way to the last column (and as
such, cannot be considered to be lines that only have entries for the
first colum). I fix this by detecting these cases and skipping them,
since these are usually decoration lines. An example is the second line
output by `winget list`:

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/20356389/06c873fb-0a26-45dd-b020-3bcc737d027f)

What we don't want to skip, however, is lines that contain no
whitespace, and fit into the detected first column, since these lines
represent cases where data is only available for the first column, and
are not just decoration lines. For example (made up example, there are
no such entries in `winget lits`'s output), in this output we would not
want to skip the `Docker Desktop` line :
```
Name                                                        Id                                           Version     Available Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AMD Software                                                ARPMachineX64AMD Catalyst Install Manager 24.4.1
AMD Ryzen Master                                            ARPMachineX64AMD Ryzen Master             2.13.0.2908
Docker Desktop
Mozilla Firefox (x64 en-US)                                 Mozilla.Firefox                              127.0.2               winget
```

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/20356389/12e31995-a7c1-4759-8c62-fb4fb199fd2e)

NOTE: `winget list | detect columns --guess` does not panic, but sadly
still does not work as expected. I believe this is not a nushell issue
anymore, but a `winget` one. When being piped, `winget` seems to add
extra whitespace and random `\r` symbols at the beginning of the text.
This messes with the column detection, of course.

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/20356389/7d1b7e5f-17d0-41c8-8d2f-7896e0d73d66)

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/20356389/56917954-1231-43e7-bacf-e5760e263054)

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/20356389/630bcfc9-eb78-4a45-9c8f-97efc0c224f4)


# User-Facing Changes
`detect columns --guess` should not panic when receiving output from
`winget list` at all anymore.

A breaking change is the skipping of decoration lines, especially since
scripts probably were doing something like
`winget list | lines | reject 1 | str join "\n" | detect columns
--guess`. This will now cause them to reject a line with valid data.

# Tests + Formatting
Added tests that exercise these edge cases, as well as a single-column
test to make sure that trivial cases keep working.

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encode_decode Make string related commands parse-time evaluatable (#13032) 2024-06-05 22:21:52 +03:00
format Move format date to Category::Strings (#13083) 2024-06-06 18:32:08 -05:00
split Make string related commands parse-time evaluatable (#13032) 2024-06-05 22:21:52 +03:00
str_ add str deunicode command (#13270) 2024-06-29 16:12:34 -05:00
char_.rs Add char nul (#13241) 2024-06-26 18:49:44 -05:00
detect_columns.rs Make string related commands parse-time evaluatable (#13032) 2024-06-05 22:21:52 +03:00
guess_width.rs Skip decoration lines for detect columns --guess (#13274) 2024-06-30 07:38:41 -05:00
mod.rs Add command_prelude module (#12291) 2024-03-26 21:17:30 +00:00
parse.rs Make string related commands parse-time evaluatable (#13032) 2024-06-05 22:21:52 +03:00