pretty-sqlite - Simple, Minimalistic Pretty Prints for SQLite

This library assists with testing and exploratory development of SQLite by conveniently printing the contents of a table or a select statement into a nicely formatted table using the tabled crate.

This library is based on the rusqlite crate.

NOTES:

• Version 0.0.x will undergo API changes. Feel free to cherry-pick the code you want.
• The upcoming version 0.1.x will be more stable but may still include some API-breaking changes. Thus, it is recommended to lock to a specific version (e.g., =0.1.2).
• Version 0.2.x and onward will follow semantic versioning more strictly.

IMPORTANT: By default, all queries/prints are limited to 300 records. Using pretty_selection_with_options and the PrettyOptions can change this default behavior.

The API convention is as follows:

• Functions prefixed with pretty_..., like pretty_table and pretty_select, return a formatted string of the table/query content.
• Functions prefixed with print_..., like print_table and print_select, call println!() on the function above.

There is also a more advanced function:

• pretty_select_with_options(conn, sql, params, pretty_options) allows customization of the table result with PrettyOptions.

Example:

let conn = Connection::open_in_memory()?; // for file: Connection::open(path)?
// ... seed db

// -- Print table
pretty_sqlite::print_table(&conn, "person")?;

// Same as:
// let content = pretty_sqlite::pretty_table(&conn, "person")?;
// println!("{content}");

Will print something like:

 TABLE: person
┌────┬────────────┬──────┬──────────┬───────────────────┐
│ id │ name       │ yob  │ data_t   │ data_b            │
├────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 1  │ "Person 1" │ 1951 │ "Data 1" │ BLOB (length: 10) │
├────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 2  │ "Person 2" │ 1952 │ "Data 2" │ BLOB (length: 10) │
├────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 3  │ "Person 3" │ 1953 │ "Data 3" │ BLOB (length: 10) │
├────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 4  │ "Person 4" │ 1954 │ "Data 4" │ BLOB (length: 10) │
├────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────┤
│ 5  │ "Person 5" │ 1955 │ "Data 5" │ BLOB (length: 10) │
└────┴────────────┴──────┴──────────┴───────────────────┘

let conn = Connection::open_in_memory()?; // for file: Connection::open(path)?
// ... seed db

pretty_sqlite::print_select(&conn, "select id, name, yob from person where id > ?", (2,))?;

// Same as:
// let content = pretty_sqlite::pretty_select(&conn, "select id, name, yob from person where id > ?", (2,))?;
// println!("{content}");

┌────┬────────────┬──────┐
│ id │ name       │ yob  │
├────┼────────────┼──────┤
│ 3  │ "Person 3" │ 1953 │
├────┼────────────┼──────┤
│ 4  │ "Person 4" │ 1954 │
├────┼────────────┼──────┤
│ 5  │ "Person 5" │ 1955 │
└────┴────────────┴──────┘

See examples/readme.rs