How to indent a Dump() result?

doggy

If I want to output a log using Dump() in the hierarchical structure. I want to indent some of the Dump results. Is that possible?

sgmoore

Would something like this work?

void Main()
{
    var f = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat;

    f.FirstDayOfWeek.Dump("");
    f.NativeCalendarName.DumpIndented(1);
    f.FullDateTimePattern.DumpTellIndented(1);
    f.LongDatePattern.DumpTellIndented(2);
    f.Calendar.DumpIndented(3, "Calendar", collapseTo:1);

    f.AbbreviatedDayNames.DumpTellIndented(2,collapseTo: 0);

}

public static class Indent
{
    public static int SizeOfIndent = 10;
    public static T DumpIndented<T>(this T obj, int indentLevel = 0, string? description = null, int? collapseTo = null)
    {
        string indent = " ".PadLeft(indentLevel * SizeOfIndent);
        if (description != null)
            Util.HorizontalRun(true, indent, Util.WithHeading(obj, description)).Dump(collapseTo: collapseTo);
        else
            Util.HorizontalRun(true, indent, obj).Dump(collapseTo: collapseTo );
        return obj;
    }

    public static T DumpTellIndented<T>(this T obj, int indentLevel = 0, [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallerArgumentExpression("obj")] string? autoGeneratedDescription = null, int? collapseTo = null)
    {
        string indent = " ".PadLeft(indentLevel * SizeOfIndent);     
        Util.HorizontalRun(true, indent, Util.WithHeading(obj, autoGeneratedDescription)).Dump(collapseTo: collapseTo);
        return obj;
    }   
}

Results look like

Of course there are a whole load of more optional parameters available with dump and I have just using two, but it is probably easy to add most of the rest of them.

doggy

Yes, something like that. I hope that feature can be built-in to LINQPad.

Usage example:

a.Dump(indent: 1);
if (a == "")
{
    b.Dump(indent: 2);
}

Or like this:

using (var scope1 = new Util.DumpScope())
{
    a.Dump(); // auto-indented 1 level

    using (var scope2 = new Util.DumpScope())
    {
        b.Dump(); // auto-indented 2 level
    }
}