base on Adding `.Dump()` extension methods to Console Applications, similar to LinqPad's. # Dumpify <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MoaidHathot/Dumpify/main/assets/Dumpify-logo-styled.png" alt="drawing" width="200" /> [](https://badge.fury.io/nu/Dumpify)      Improve productivity and debuggability by adding `.Dump()` extension methods to **Console Applications**. `Dump` any object in a structured and colorful way into the Console, Trace, Debug events or your own custom output. # How to Install The library is published as a [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dumpify) Either run `dotnet add package Dumpify`, `Install-Package Dumpify` or use Visual Studio's [NuGet Package Manager](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/install-use-packages-visual-studio) # Overview Video An overview video hosted on the `Open at Microsoft` show<br><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWAMSgz-vc"> <img src = "https://github.com/MoaidHathot/Dumpify/assets/8770486/2fcdc3eb-1c09-465a-99ba-19c267565bea" width = "400" /> <br> </a>  # Features * Dump any object in a structured, colorful way to Console, Debug, Trace or any other custom output * Support Properties, Fields and non-public members * Support max nesting levels * Support circular dependencies and references * Support styling and customizations * Highly Configurable * Support for different output targets: Console, Trace, Debug, Text, Custom * Fast! # Examples: ## Anonymous types ```csharp new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }.Dump(); ```  ### Support nesting and circular references ```csharp var moaid = new Person { FirstName = "Moaid", LastName = "Hathot", Profession = Profession.Software }; var haneeni = new Person { FirstName = "Haneeni", LastName = "Shibli", Profession = Profession.Health }; moaid.Spouse = haneeni; haneeni.Spouse = moaid; moaid.Dump(); //You can define max depth as well, e.g `moaid.Dump(maxDepth: 2)` ```  ### Support for Arrays, Dictionaries and Collections ```csharp var arr = new[] { 1, 2, 3, 4 }.Dump(); ```  ```csharp var arr2d = new int[,] { {1, 2}, {3, 4} }.Dump(); ```  ```csharp new Dictionary<string, string> { ["Moaid"] = "Hathot", ["Haneeni"] = "Shibli", ["Eren"] = "Yeager", ["Mikasa"] = "Ackerman", }.Dump(); ```  You can ensure that arrays, dictionaries and collections don't output too much by allowing results to be truncated. Do this by setting the `MaxCollectionCount` property in the tableConfig. ```csharp int[] arr = [1, 2, 3, 4]; // Outputs only the first two elements and a message that says: ... truncated 2 items arr.Dump(tableConfig: new () { MaxCollectionCount = 2 }); ``` ### You can turn on or off fields and private members ```csharp public class AdditionValue { private readonly int _a; private readonly int _b; public AdditionValue(int a, int b) { _a = a; _b = b; } private int Value => _a + _b; } new AdditionValue(1, 2).Dump(members: new MembersConfig { IncludeFields = true, IncludeNonPublicMembers = true }); ```  ### You can provide a custom filter to determine if members should be included or not ```csharp public class Person { public string Name { get; set; } [JsonIgnore] public string SensitiveData { get; set; } } new Person() { Name = "Moaid", SensitiveData = "We don't want this to show up" }.Dump(members: new MembersConfig { MemberFilter = member => !member.Info.CustomAttributes.Any(a => a.AttributeType == typeof(JsonIgnoreAttribute)) }); ``` ### You can turn on or off row separators and a type column ```csharp //globally DumpConfig.Default.TableConfig.ShowMemberTypes = true; DumpConfig.Default.TableConfig.ShowRowSeparators = true; new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }.Dump(); //or Per dump new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }.Dump(tableConfig: new TableConfig { ShowRowSeparators = true, ShowMemberTypes = true }); ```  ### You can set custom labels or auto-labels ```csharp new { Description = "You can manually specify labels to objects" }.Dump("Manual label"); //Set auto-label globally for all dumps if a custom label wasn't provider DumpConfig.Default.UseAutoLabels = true; new { Description = "Or set labels automatically with auto-labels" }.Dump(); ```  ### You can customize colors ```csharp var package = new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }; package.Dump(colors: ColorConfig.NoColors); package.Dump(colors: new ColorConfig { PropertyValueColor = new DumpColor(Color.RoyalBlue)}); ```  ### You can turn on or off type names, headers, lables and much more ```csharp var moaid = new Person { FirstName = "Moaid", LastName = "Hathot", Profession = Profession.Software }; var haneeni = new Person { FirstName = "Haneeni", LastName = "Shibli", Profession = Profession.Health }; moaid.Spouse = haneeni; haneeni.Spouse = moaid; moaid.Dump(typeNames: new TypeNamingConfig { ShowTypeNames = false }, tableConfig: new TableConfig { ShowTableHeaders = false }); ```  ### There are multiple output options (Console, Trace, Debug, Text) or provide your own ```csharp var package = new { Name = "Dumpify", Description = "Dump any object to Console" }; package.Dump(); //Similar to `package.DumpConsole()` and `package.Dump(output: Outputs.Console))` package.DumpDebug(); //Dump to Visual Studio's Debug source package.DumpTrace(); //Dump to Trace var text = package.DumpText(); //The table in a text format using var writer = new StringWriter(); package.Dump(output: new DumpOutput(writer)); //Custom output ``` ### Every configuration can be defined per-Dump or globally for all Dumps, e.g: ```csharp DumpConfig.Default.TypeNamingConfig.UseAliases = true; DumpConfig.Default.TypeNamingConfig.ShowTypeNames = false; DumpConfig.Default.ColorConfig.TypeNameColor = Color.Gold; DumpConfig.Default.MaxDepth = 3; //Much more... ``` # Features for the future 0.7.0 release * Add configuration for formatting Anonymous Objects type names * Text renderer * Better rendering of Delegates * Write the `Count` values of dictionaries and IEnumerables in the name, e.g `Dictionary<string, string>(3)` * Add an option to limit how many elements to render for collections and arrays. * **consider** changing the default color scheme to VSCode's * Documentation * Consider changing the style/view of ObjectDescriptors without properties (currently empty table) * Fix simplified type names with Collection expressions (IEnumearble<int> col = [1, 2, 3]); # To do * Live outputs * Add custom rendering for more types: - Exceptions, AggregateExceptions, etc... * Rethink Generators caching keys * Ditch `ObjectIdGenerator` and create a custom, modern implementation * Consider using Max Depth for Descriptors * Refactor Renderers and make it better extendable * Add more renderers * Text Renderers * re-introduce Json * CSharp Renderer * Consider Decoupling from Spectre.Console * Tests * More tests * Visual (Render) Tests - consider acceptance tests * Tests for Nesting * 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 ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"8213","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"