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Subject:    Re: Possible to align strings?
From:       Johannes Homuth <johannes.homuth () sourcepark ! de>
Date:       2010-12-01 15:18:31
Message-ID: 4CF66747.8080606 () sourcepark ! de
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Nice, thats what I'm was looking for.

Thank you Claude!

Claude Brisson wrote:
> Yes, there is. You have to put a DisplayTool in your velocity context.
> 
> Check the cell() method in:
> 
> http://velocity.apache.org/tools/releases/2.0/javadoc/org/apache/velocity/tools/generic/DisplayTool.html \
>  
> 
> You would typically write: $disp.cell($jobinfo.localNameOfJobInXml,30)
> 
> 
> Claude
> 
> 
> On 01/12/2010 15:56, Johannes Homuth wrote:
> > Hi everybody
> > 
> > I want to use velocity to create a "let's say" table. Therefore I 
> > have a created a simple template.
> > 
> > ================================================================================ 
> > 
> > ENGINE STATE
> > ================================================================================ 
> > 
> > Jobname                    |   Execution State     | Duration   
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > #foreach( $jobinfo in $infoList )
> > $jobinfo.localNameOfJobInXml | $jobinfo.executionState | 
> > $jobinfo.executionDuration
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > #end
> > ================================================================================ 
> > 
> > 
> > Everything allright so far, but now I want to align the strings. The 
> > inserted values for the variables in the template don't
> > have the same length. So the generated output looks like this
> > 
> > ....
> > Jobname                    |   Execution State     | Duration   
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > CheckDclStatusJob | EXECUTED_WITH_ERRORS | 00:00:00
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > PcImportJob | NOT_EXECUTED_FAILED_DEPENDENCY | --:--:--
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > OeImportJob | NOT_EXECUTED_FAILED_DEPENDENCY | --:--:--
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> > Looks like crap! Thats why I want to align the strings. Is there 
> > anything like String.format("%-20s",test) which reserves a number of 
> > columns of a String?
> > 
> > 
> > Output should be something like this
> > 
> > ....
> > Jobname                | Execution State                   | 
> > Duration   
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > CheckDclStatusJob      | EXECUTED_WITH_ERRORS              | 00:00:00
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > PcImportJob            | NOT_EXECUTED_FAILED_DEPENDENCY    | --:--:--
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > OeImportJob            | NOT_EXECUTED_FAILED_DEPENDENCY    | --:--:--
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> > 
> > Thx for sugestions
> > 
> 
> 
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